nLite as learning tool ?

[deipotent]

I am interested in learning how nLite integrates various drivers, components and tweaks, and was planning on comparing the before and after files to see what had been changed/added. Unfortunately, nLite makes a lot of changes to quite a few files (and some seem unrelated to what the user is doing), even for something like adding the ICH8R RAID driver to XP x64. It also strips whitespace from the files which, although preferable when , is not preferable when using nLite as a learning tool.

Is there any way to make nLite only make the changes that are absolutely necessary ?

Also, is it possible to stop nLite from performing optimization on the files (eg. removing whitespace, re-ordering lists into alphabetical order etc) ?

If not, is there any chance of adding these options/features to nLite which would make nLite a great tool for learning as well as being a great tool for quickly tweaking Windows installation CD's ?

BTW, why does nLite makes these "un-necessary" changes (eg. it replaces syssetup.dll with a dll which has the same version number, but has a different MD5) ?

[deipotent]

In trying to see if nLite could be started with a command-line parameter to stop the optimization, I found that it causes an error (eg. "nlite.exe /?") in either nLite or .NET.

Edited September 16, 2007 by deipotent

[Ponch]

is it possible to stop nLite from performing optimization on the files

...

why does nLite makes these "un-necessary" changes ?

...maybe because that's what Lite stands for.

[Inferi0r]

it replaces syssetup.dll with a dll which has the same version number, but has a different MD5

I'm not sure, but it's probably because you have it so configured in nLite. Take a look at the picture.

Edited September 16, 2007 by Inferi0r