Blocking a base package from installing

Linda Walsh cygwin@tlinx.org
Sat Oct 8 14:45:00 GMT 2016


Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:



> If you do set up such an explorer menu entry, it'll do whatever you tell 
> it to. 
---
	There is already such an addon for vim -- and it launches
it from the system-standard location.

	Putting a copy in /usr/local won't be called.  If you want to
replace the main copy and all it's purposes/uses, you need to overwrite
the system copy.  

> It'll only end up "of course not" working if you "of course" 
> configure things differently than you actually wanted to.  But why would 
> anyone do that?
---
	Why would you install a system copy of vim anywhere other 
than in the system location?  To install it in /usr/local would 
prevent it from working normally -- why would anyone do that?

> Did it occur to you that the system really has to support much
> more varied use cases than your own particular corner case? 
---
	Not on my system.

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