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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Apr 3 13:22, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > What I was trying to say is, if the root dir is taken automatically
> > from the path of the DLL, there is no reason to have the path to the
> > root dir stored anywhere, isn't it?
>
> I agree that the path to the root dir is not needed -- I never argued with
> that. It's the "override the /bin dir" functionality that I was worried
> about.
IIRC, we didn't talk about overriding the /bin dir. It was all about
/usr/bin and it's current state as mount point to /bin and if we should
get rid of that and yada-yada-yada. That's probably why I was puzzled.
Corinna
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