On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Harry Dellicker wrote:
I know this has been asked before but I have not yet found a real answer.
---> How does setup.exe "decide" which packages are to be installed by
default? <---
Simple. Everything in the "Base" and "Misc" categories is installed by
default. Any package that an installed package requires is installed by
default. Shampoo, rinse, repeat.
I do not see anything in setup.ini that controls this.
You didn't look hard enough. It's everything with "category:.* Base" or
"category:.* Misc".
It is also not hard-coded in the setup program itself, as far as I can
tell, nor does there seem to be any other obvious external source (file)
which provides the necessary information.
Ah, but it *is* hard-coded in setup. In two places. See
PickView::defaultTrust() and packagemeta::set_action().
I have seen the suggestion that any packages placed in "Base" will be
included in the default package list, but that seems like a bit of a
kluge.
Perhaps, but that's how it is.
I have spent hours with google, and hours studying the setup.exe source
code without any success.
Does anyone have a answer to this? Is it just so simple that "any six
year old" could see it, but I'm no longer six?
It is pretty simple. And, to answer the question you've put in your
subject line but never asked in the body of the message, the easiest way
to make some packages install by default is to create an empty dummy
package, put it in the "Base" category, and make it require all the
packages you want installed.
HTH,
Igor