On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Virginia Mann wrote:
> > Larry Hall kindly advised:
> >> Assuming you start bash now by clicking on the icon for cygwin.bat,
> >> simply
> >> edit that file, and replace "bash" with "zsh". You'll need to review the
> >> man page for zsh to see what are the appropriate flags to pass to get a
> >> login shell. I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a
> >> clue. ;-)
> >
> > Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given!
> > My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for
> > something that was in a "DOS" batch file.
>
> Now all that's needed is a way to let us not install bash... Why does
> setup.exe insist on selecting the bash package? I have to remember to
> cycle it back to "Skip" every time.
Not a very good idea. While cygwin itself does not depend on bash, some
other applications (notably, sh-utils) do depend on it. Some
postinstall/preremove scripts might also require bash. That's why you
have to explicitly set it to "Skip" - it's selected because of a
dependence. If you choose to violate this dependence, you should be aware
of the consequences.
Igor
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