Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: hacking installer scripts Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 09:11:37 GMT Article-I.D.: copper.kiran.676545097 References: <1991Jun5.233110.1753@cs.sfu.ca> <18187@venera.isi.edu> <1991Jun9.233220.474@massey.ac.nz> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 36 >francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >>And why does Apple ship machines with systems like these? I set up a >>friend's SE last fall, and it had things like the Portable cdev on its >>preinstalled hard drive! norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Norton Chia) writes: >While I go through throwing out a lot junk on my "internal" HD after every >new installation -> Colo(u)r on an SE used to be a pet hate :) >I do believe it is far easier to throw away stuff than to re-install >them from disks. My point was/is: A customized install for, say, an se **should be a customized install for an se** not, as someone suggested, an install of a system which will run any Mac What exactly does customized mean? It means specific to the machine in question. Why do they bother to have a custon install if it is not really customized to the machine it claims to be customized for. Why not simply allow the user to select an 'expert custom' which would allow specific files, fonts, &c. to be excluded? It is easier to throw things away if (a) you know that they are there and (b) you know what they are. This thread started when someone found an extension by accident. Shouldn't a customized install work to prevent things like this? -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"