More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:

> On May  5 18:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May  5 15:43, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > Quoting Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> What do others think of this idea?
>> >>
>> >
>> > In MSYS I auto-mount /usr to the same directory as /.  There are very
>> > little complaints about it.  If you allow entries in /etc/fstab to
>> > override the default then you can have your cake and eat it too. ;)
>>
>> /etc/fstab overwrites the default entries already, so, if we do that, it
>> would really just be adding the entries.
>
> ...but here's the problem.  Consider these default entries:
>
>   C:/cygwin /
>   C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>   C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>
> And /etc/fstab only consists of a single line:
>
>   X:/cygwin-1.7 /
>
> then, after reading /etc/fstab we have the end result:
>
>   X:/cygwin-1.7 /
>   C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>   C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>
> That looks somewhat fragile, doesn't it?
>

I would make / permanent; i.e. unchangeable by the user.  Any mounts  
in /etc/fstab to / are just discarded.  For MSYS the root / is always  
the parent directory of the directory containing the dll and the  
directory containing the dll is always /bin.

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Earnie