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Re: why not use root as root?
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: why not use root as root?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:35:04 -0500
- CC: gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF7975@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> Why? Having it installed in the root offers no benefits (other than
> dejagnu working). And everyone doing support on the list is likely to
> ask a user that has installed into the root to reinstall off the root.
And, it will only work if you are on the drive with Cygwin installed in the
root partition. I.E. you can only build and test on the drive with Cygwin
on it.
Cheers,
Earnie
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