I don't really like adding this type of check, unless its absolutely 
required because every time we add a new installer app we have to modify 
this code.

Is there another way we can tell if differentiation is required?

thanks,
sarah
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Evan Layton wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>> Jack Schwartz wrote:
>>> Hi Sarah and Evan.
>>>
>>> On 10/13/09 06:44, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
>>>> Hi Evan,
>>>>
>>>> Looks ok. I do have a question:
>>>>
>>>> Why do we have this check:
>>>>>  if ((self.LIVECD_INSTALL) or (self.AUTO_INSTALL)):
>>>>>  365                         self.AUTOHOME = BASEDIR + AUTOHOME
>>>>>  366                 else:
>>>>>  367                         self.AUTOHOME = AUTOHOME
>>>>>  368 
>>>>
>>>> In ict.py?
>>>>
>>>> And, what happens when we add the text installer product? Don't we 
>>>> have to modify this to include a check for that?
>>> Text-install image does introduce a third type here.  I'll address 
>>> this as part of the text-installer modification (part of the 
>>> text-mode-menu work I've got for Driver Update).
>>>
>>
>> I think the real question is why this is attempting to differentiate 
>> at all.  In what situations would this ever be called that BASEDIR 
>> shouldn't be prepended?
> 
> I can't think of one currently however it is conceivable that we may 
> want to run this outside of the installer similar to add_splash_to_menu. 
> If that is the case then we would not want to prepend BASEDIR. It was 
> for this possibility that I added this check.
> 
> -evan
> 
>>
>> Dave
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