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RE: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'what is the sound of one hand posting?'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:49:45 +0100
- Subject: RE: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 18 April 2005 18:44
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:40:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 18 18:27, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> ----Original Message----
>>>> From: NNK_ml
>>>> Sent: 18 April 2005 18:18
>>>
>>>>>> Well, /bin is the bin, that's a bit like /dev/null, but /usr/bin is
>>>>>> the user bin, that's where we throw all the user's files away when
>>>>>> we want to delete them. Then there's the user's local bin, which is
>>>>>> a bit like the recycle bin in windows.
>>>>
>>>> So /usr/bin is where you dump entire user directories, but their local
>>>> bin is where files go when the user deletes their own stuff?
>>>
>>>
>>> I refer you to the last sentence of my earlier post!
>>
>> Since you were all making it up anyway, let's get serious (OT alarm!):
>>
>> Wouldn't it be much better(*) and cleaner(*) if every single Cygwin
>> package would use its own subdirectory under C:\Program Files ?
>
> Isn't this exactly what Dave was saying?
>
> Again, I didn't really read the above but that is my interpretation of
> what you've both written since I don't have time to do anything other
> than respond.
>
> cgf
Excellent work, young grasshopper. Simply empty your mind of all
confusion and thought before posting; soon you too will have achieved the
satori of getting a 'first post' on /.
cheers,
DaveK
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