Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!news From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: hacking installer scripts (was Sys 7 little bucket in upper right corner) Message-ID: <1991Jun9.233220.474@massey.ac.nz> Date: 9 Jun 91 23:32:20 GMT References: <1991Jun5.233110.1753@cs.sfu.ca> <18187@venera.isi.edu> Organization: Massey University Lines: 28 In article kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes: >jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >> Is this part of system 7.0? Does it mean the bucket (?) is getting full? >>Sounds like someone's found Easy Access... ;-) >A chance to get this off my mind: >Why the hell does Apple think every user needs this junk (the >6.0.7 installer put brightness in a) a customized ][si install and >b) a minimal install [if memory serves, but i _always_ have to >clean unwanted/needed junk out of the system folder. It was DAL in >7.0] > >Does anyone know how to hack the installer scripts so the battery cdev >is not installed on an si? &c. &c. As I understand it, when you do an installation for a specific machine, the installer also puts in the minimum software to drive all Macintosh models. That's why you get the brightness cdev and other little goodies which only used in specific models. A possible reason for doing this is that if you installed on an external HD of one machine type and than took your HD to another machine type and you didn't have the minimum OS requirements for that machine, you wouldn't have a bootable HD. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allan Burton Phone +64 6 3569099 x8564, Fax +64 6 3505607 Macintosh Consultant, TimeZone GMT +12, Internet A.K.Burton@massey.ac.nz Computer Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------