Re: setup.exe different packages

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 28/01/2014 19:19, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> BGINFO4X wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > What is the recommende way to install ONLY one pakcage(bash for
> > example) with the GUI?
> >
> > What I do is: All ->  Uninstall , then check for the package that I
> > want: Base ->  Bash ->  Install
> >
> > If I do in this manner, I obtain less packages than installing bash
> > from the command line with:
> >
> > setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu
> > --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode --root
> > %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash
> >
> > With the GUI I obtain 27 installed  packages, with setup-x86 command
> > line I obtain 56 installed packages.
> > I'm doing something wrong? How is this possible?
> When you're doing it from the command line, you're getting a full base
> Cygwin install. Your GUI method is only installing bash and the bash
> dependencies. It looks like to me that there should be 27 packages.
>
> I started to draw out a dependency tree, but it got to painful to type
> up, and I doubt many would care. I'm surprised there's not such a thing
> on the Cygwin site somewhere, but perhaps I'm just blind.

just for the records a minimal (only base) installation from scratch
results in 52 packages.

Some of the base packages pull others that are not
in the base one, usually libs

eg: libgcc1, libintl8, ..

diffutils is pulled by xz,
bzip2, groff and less are pulled by man

Ihe curious things I notice are:

libgmp3 is pulled by coreutils and gawk
libgmp10 is pulled by libmpfr4 that is pulled by gawk

libpcre1 and libpcr0 are both pulled by grep and this look wrong,
as I see a dependency only for libpcre1.

So repackaging coreutils, gawk and adjusting grep dependency
we could go down to just 50 packages as bare minimal.

Not worth, I should say










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