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Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:19:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
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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.
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