terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Tue Nov 4 16:37:00 GMT 2014


> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Nope.  The problem you're encountering is homemade.  /usr/share is a
> > normal directory just like /usr.  There's no reason at all to mount
> > anything there.  If your installation doesn't have /usr/share, your
> > installation is clearly broken and given that you didn't use setup
> > to install it, it's really just a case of PEBCAK.
> >
> 
> I wasn't asking for help; I have a working install.  I was stating the
> possibility of making Cygwin better.  Too bad that one cannot simply
> extract the archives and must depend on the blind use of setup.exe.

You've now more than worn out your welcome with this line of questioning.
The answer has been explained to you multiple times.  If you don't like the
answer, you're free to leave.


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