> John Morrison wrote: >> If you are worried about the size of setup, would it help to move >> /cygwin.bat and /cygwin.ico into base-files? I've an update going out >> for >> this soon and it would be little/no trouble... (I could even rename >> them >> to have a captial 'C' so they don't clash with /cygdrive ;) > > It would probably only save a few KB. > However, I think base-files would be a far more appropriate place for > these > to live. They are used in setup.exe's shortcut creation, though, so I > think > we should delay the move until we can transfer the shortcut creation to > base-files too.
I can add that too, mkshortcut from the cygutils package in a postinstall. The only issue would be how to get setup to communicate which (if any) should be created and wether for all users or just current... environment variables? J.