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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Jonathan Kamens" <jik AT curl DOT com>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How does setup.exe figure out what to install by default?
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:34:19 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Kamens" <jik AT curl DOT com>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: How does setup.exe figure out what to install by default?


> I'm trying to figure out how setup.exe decides which packages should
> be installed by default.  My best guess was that "Base" categories are
> installed by default, but I couldn't find any evidence of that in the
> source code in winsup/cinstall (I looked at every instance of the word
> "base", and unless I missed it, none of them were the one that would
> key this functionality).  I found code which seems to suggest that
> "Required" or "Misc" packages are installed by default, but I don't
> see anything designated "Required" or "Misc" in setup.ini, so I don't
> know how those bits would get set on a package (and I suspect that's a
> red herring because I'm not understanding it properly anyway).
>
> Somebody wanna give me a hint? :-)

You are looking at old source code?

$ grep -n "Base" *
choose.cc:590:      && !(getpackagecategorybyname (pkg, "Base")

> Is there some Windows magic that I'm missing here?

we use the argv, argc generated by msvcrt for us.

Rob

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