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Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:03:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?
References: <AANLkTi=2M_N8kUmxjf57hZgYG6nXnP-XrJ4cVuP4qHuN@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13:04AM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>Is this a bug?

No.

>I noticed that there's no SETUP.INI file in the Cygwin directory
>anymore, but there is an etc/setup/setup.rc file instead.

There should never have been a setup.ini in the Cygwin directory.
setup.ini is something very different from setup.rc.

setup.exe, like many other installers, will always prompt you at the end
on whether you want to create a desktop icon.

cgf

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