Fair enough I can easily remove this check for AUTOHOME.

For the fix to 7880/11436 I know of no other way to differentiate this and it 
is 
needed for the use of add_splash_to_menu in libbe.

-evan

Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> 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
> ****
> 
> 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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