----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Kamens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
