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On Aug 12 07:10, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/12/2013 5:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 11 09:41, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 8/11/2013 3:16 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >>>Fairly often when I run setup just for updates, it selects new packages for > >>>installation that I haven't selected and that aren't required by any of my > >>>other packages. > >>> > >>>Right now setup wants to install the login package. I didn't select it, > >>>and if I unselect it the installation continues without any problem. It > >>>happened in setup-x86, and now setup-x86_64 wants to do it too. I try to > >>>keep my installation slim, so I don't want setup to add new packages that > >>>aren't required and that I didn't select. > >>> > >>>Has anyone else observed this? Know the reason? Are they new packages, > >>>and setup assumes I want all new packages? > >> > >>login is in the Base category and so is installed by default. It > >>was only recently added to the 64-bit distro, but I think it's been > >>in x86 for a long time. The files on sourceware date from 2009. > >> > >>As far as I know, only things in Base and Misc (and their > >>dependencies) get installed by default. (And packages in Misc are > >>usually there by mistake, because a maintainer forgot to provide a > >>setup.hint.) I haven't observed any exceptions to this. > > > >Usually only Base and dependencies shoud be installed by default, > >not Misc. Or did I miss something? > > We had problems with expat packages being installed by default > because they were missing setup.hint files and therefore were put > into Misc: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-04/msg00234.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00209.html > > 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. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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