why does setup keep trying to install non-required packages?

[Charles Wilson]

On 8/12/2013 11:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 12 11:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Aug 12 07:10, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> Maybe I jumped to an incorrect conclusion, but that (and earlier
>>>> instances of the same problem) made me think that Misc was installed
>>>> by default.
>>>
>>> Oh, right.  The setup sources seem to prove that point, too.
>>
>> You know, I think I will remove "Misc" from upset's logic.  The category
>> field should be mandatory, not optional.
>>
>> I assume that no one disagrees with this, right?
>
> I don't.

Back in the day, Misc was used when setup.exe supported installing a 
directory full of random tarballs without setup.hint or setup.ini data. 
  So, of course, if you pointed setup.exe at a directory full of random 
tarballs, you did so because you wanted to install them -- thus Misc was 
installed by default.

But I don't think that (installing tarballs w/o setup.ini data) even 
works anymore -- and genini is easy enough to use -- so I also agree 
with the decision to remove Misc.

--
Chuck