setup drops mount?

DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
Tue Nov 14 08:45:00 GMT 2000


> That is all very well and fine, but it would be nice of setup to
> restore my /var mount when it is done.

The problem is that some packages might put files in /var.  If I
restored your mount, those files would be inaccessible to cygwin
programs.

> I mean, who's the boss around here?

If you use setup, setup is the boss.  Feel free to "tar xvfz" your own
packages if you don't like the way setup sets up cygwin.

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