Changing or Ignoring Dependency Rules in XPE

[Paul Nash]

I have a base image set up for a simple system and I would like to reduce
the footprint. However the network of component dependencies is preventing
me complete this satisfactorily.

One example is that my system needs no printing support. It does however
require WMI Win32 support. Which in turn requires a number of Printing
components. e.g. "Server Printing". Now I could ignore the dependency on
"Server Printing" however it means that every time I run a dependency check
it brings up an error.

Does anyone no how to change the dependencies for the base components or how
to setup individual components to not check their dependencies?

Thanks,

Paul Nash

 

[Zirong Wang]

Providing that you have enabled the resources detail view
(in view menu, check resources) in Target Designer.

in the middle pan, locate 'server printing' component,
click on 'files', on the right pan, select all (ctrl-A)
right click and select disable.

repeat the same process for registry data and resources

you will no more have dependency error.

Zirong

 

[Paul Nash]

Hi,

I tried that but unfortunately this does not break the dependency chain.
Although it now does not complain about "Server Printing" it complains about
the base component that "Server Printing" relies on. I assume the only way
to elimante all the errors down to the base dependency would be to perform
this trick on all the components below "Server Printing". However this would
be time consuming and would make the configuration unclear.

Is there a way to break the dependency in the main repository?

Regards,

Paul Nash