Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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.

> As an aside I like this current behaviour: I have bandwidth constraints
> and problems with packages interfering with each other and so find it
> handy to start with a small core Cygwin and add the stuff I need.
>
> I don't know how to extract what the default packages are from the old
> setup.exe: I suspect it's all the Base category packages plus others
> from a list compiled into the binary though I'd be happy if someone
> could correct me on that.

No, that's not true.  See above.

> I notice that setup-1.7.exe has a command line interface with an option
> to select packages to install. It doesn't appear to be working yet. I
> sure hope it is a future feature because it would be just the ticket for
>   this issue: compile a list of packages you want to be in your default
> install and then you could reproduce it at will.

Can you be more specific about the problem you see?

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