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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 09/29/2009 04:04 PM, smoore@exis.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.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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