[PATCH] Add chooser-only mode to setup.exe

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 6 07:06:00 GMT 2010


On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:32:59AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>I think we talked about this idea before once.  It's a variant of
>setup.exe's unattended mode that skips through everything automatically
>except for the chooser page.  I decided to call it 'package manager
>mode', because that's what I'm planning on using it for, but don't mind
>if anyone wants to change the option name.

I don't recall discussing this.  Could you clarify how this would be
used?  It basically just skips a couple of screens at the beginning,
right?  Does it skip the mirror selection too?  Is it intended to just
manage your packages after cygwin is installed, keeping all of your
default settings?

cgf



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