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Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe
How about command-line switches for unattended installation? This
would be useful for deploying Cygwin in any non-toy environment.
It should be as simple as applying Edward Peschko's patches:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html
The "-a" option is the vital one. Downloading via GUI is not so bad
since you only do it once per version. Installing via GUI, on the
other hand, makes large-scale deployment impossible without bad and
fragile hacks (like GUI automation tools).
- Pat
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