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Re: A modest proposal #1: /opt


Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
In certain ***RARE*** cases, I believe that a /opt/<package>/ heirarchy
-- with the associated /etc/opt/ and /var/opt/ areas -- is a useful and
necessary expansion of the official cygwin packaging standard.


This sounds like it would map pretty well to:

/opt/<package>/ -> c:\Program Files\<package>\ (CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES)
/var/opt/<package>/ -> C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local
Settings\Application Data\<package>\ (CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
/etc/opt/<package>/ -> c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\<package>\ (CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA)

Hmmm... that /var one doesn't feel right....

Please let's stay in the unix world. If you want to map various /opt/ subdirs to C:\Progra~1\packag~1\... you're welcome to do so on your machine, but for the purposes of this discussion, let's pretend that cygwin is a *UNIX* environment that runs under windows.


Oh, right...

--Chuck



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