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Re: Setup - command line only
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:04:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: Setup - command line only
- References: <49A1DF61.5000509@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Kevin and Nancy wrote:
I was hoping someone would consider a version of setup.exe that only ran
on the command line, i.e. a non-graphical setup program. This would be
especially helpful for remotely updating packages of the Cygwin suite. I
think it's ironic that the Cygwin suite which specializes on command
line utilities only has a graphical user interface for setup/updates.
A separate question might be, why can't setup update itself? Even,
"click here to download the new setup" would be a setup forward.
Just some ideas. Hopefully, this isn't the 300th time someone has
asked, but I did do a Google before sending this.
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below:
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html>
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