setup.exe and 'default/skip/install/reinstall' question

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 21:08, Leon KUKOVEC wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read the documents about setup.hint and setup.ini but I could not find the
> answer to my question.
> 
> I want to change the 'default' install behaviour of setup.exe so that it will
> include packages I want and not the vanilla-default ones. I also want to
> remove some of the packages from the vanilla-default list. In our company we
> use cygwin, but everytime a new engineer wants to install cygwin, that person
> pops in my cube and asks what packages should be installed.
> 
> I am willing to automate that by either editing setup.ini or setup.hint or any
> other method, but I could not find the description how to do that.

Setup a local mirror and a setup.ini. Include in the setup.ini simply
the package names you want to include, and the category 'base' or
'misc'.

You cannot safely remove pacakges from the default - we keep that as
lean as we can. Thus, setup is *not designed* to enable you doing that.
I will *consider* patches to do that though.

Rob
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