Re: why not use root as root?

["Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>]

One reason is that some existing programs ported from unix use \bin or \usr etc on the windows drive for storing their programs. If
you install cygwin into the same location you may conflict with those packages - thus the recommendation.

Rob
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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: why not use root as root?


> <31 Dec 2000, 20:37 Uhr wars, als Anthony & Yinkwan folgendes schrub:>
> < Re: why not use root as root? >
>
> > I took it that they ment the root directory of your windows boot
> > partition (C:) ... I've installed Cygwin in the root directory of a
> > dedicated NTFS partition (D:) and suffered no dire consequences to date !
>
> Yes, so did i, got a free partitition, so i feel brave to try it.
> One issue, i find out is, if you aere in root dir ' / ' and do a
> 'cd ..' , you find yourself in ' /.. ' , and after another 'cd ..'
> you are in ' /../.. ', maybe this could cause problems?
>
>
> > "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> > >
> > > I found this entry in the faq:
> > >
> > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC52
> > >
> > > So there is no explanation, what is the problem with that issue.
> > > I only read, that it is not recommended, but why?
> > >
> > > 'It is strongly recommended not to make the Cygwin root directory
> > > the same as your drive's root directory, unless you know what you
> > > are doing and are prepared to deal with the consequences. '
> > >
> > > What are the consequences?
>
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