X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AC26922.2080102@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:08:02 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW? References: <4AC1B44B DOT 6080602 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 09/29/2009 04:04 PM, smoore AT exis DOT net wrote: > Chris Cormie (Cygwin) wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 09/28/2009 10:31 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: >>>> I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears >>>> to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects >>>> many more packages outside the Base category by default and that's the >>>> difference you are seeing. >>> >>> There should be little difference in how 'setup.exe' works for 1.5 vs > 1.7. >>> The determination for what's installed by default has not changed, though >>> the overall number of packages and size may have changed somewhat. > > I wonder if the change to the X stuff if showing up here. Old install of X > brought in pretty much everything but the new modular install is much more > frugal. I never checked what happened to the old stuff when I updated to the > new X in 1.5. I don't think it removed the already installed X stuff, so I'm > thinking that an old 1.5 install (even upgraded) with X could show quite a > few more files than a new 1.5 or 1.7 install with X. If I understood the OP correctly, he only installed new and only whatever comes by default. X is not part of the 'Base' category so it isn't installed by default. > Probably the easiest way to see the differences is the massage the cygcheck > outputs and simply diff the two. Yup. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple