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Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)


Are you and Linda married by any chance?

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:36:49 -0500
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:

> On 02/10/2009, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >     Plblblblb....! (*raz*)
> > 
> >     Um...so..um...
> >     I know it could spoil your day and all...but it really would
> > be more *linux* like if it was added to the environment variables.
> 
> OK, I need to be clear.  I have nothing against the enviroment variable
> idea.  I was making (a little) joke.
> 
> If you'd like to see this happen, I'd suggest offering it as a patch
> to 'setup.exe'.  Since I'm not the gatekeeper for 'setup.exe' code,
> whether or not I'm convinced it's a good idea isn't necessarily
> going to help or hurt your cause.  The patch is likely to be the path of
> least (though not necessarily 'no') resistence.
> 
> > I forget, does Cygwin offer the option of installing for 1 user vs. 
> > "all users"? I only remember it being installed for "all"...? 
> 
> Both are offered in 1.7.
> 
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