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Re: So *is* anyone thinking of adding support for some sort of dialog interaction for cygwin packages?
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:49:14AM +0000, Dr. Frank Lee wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:30:36AM +0000, Dr. Frank Lee wrote:
>>>Can I, on behalf of everyone else who installs cygwin using wpkg
>>>(http://www.wpkg.org - a system for managing software from a central
>>>location without subscribing to Microsoft's Active Directory) put in a
>>>plea for an option to disable interaction during install?
>
><snip a thread swerve here>
>
>>Please don't commandeer threads for your own purposes.
>>If you feel that this must be discussed, please start a new thread.
>
>Apologies for the thread divergence. A separate thread has been
>created for this matter. I hope the former part of the posting is
>sufficiently "on topic" to continue though - interactive installations
>are great for many users and would be a useful addition, but I would
>ask that consideration be given to those deploying cygwin
>non-interactively by choice.
Yes. We got it. There is no need to continue to send expository email
to this thread when you've already been asked nicely not to do so.
cgf