Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >>> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >>> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and make, some >>> may. Or perhaps they want Perl or Apache. However I want to make sure >>> that ssh is installed (it'd be nice if I could automate the running >>> ssh-host-config, for example) so that I can ssh into their machine to >>> fix things. >> I think that if you leave off the silent install option that your other >> selections set by command line options are respected in the UI, so the >> extra packages you select will show as selected by default once the user >> arrives at the package selection page. Unfortunately, you have to trust >> your users to correctly hit the Next button on every page without >> changing anything until they get to the package selection page. Whether >> or not that trust is warranted is between you and your users. ;-) > > Sounds like you want the shiny new -M/--package-manager option.
Nice! I must have overlooked that option when I created my silent install batch file. My users aren't clamoring for additional package selection yet, but if they ever do, it will be great to have this feature. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple