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? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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