On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Eliah Kagan wrote: > On 2/6/07, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > If you want a use a popup, please make it aware of the --quiet option! > > [snip] > > And could the 'file in use' message box also respect the --quiet option? > > Perhaps there could be a flag to cause setup.exe to succeed quietly in > spite of such warnings (update the package anyway), and another to > cause setup.exe to "gracefully degrade" quietly in the face of them > (continue but skip updating the package and skip other updates with > the updated version of the package as a dependency).
The latter is not possible, since by the time the in-use file is detected, setup may have upgraded the package that depends on it (when there are circular dependencies). > [snip] > On the other hand, I suppose there is some question of whether or not > additional structure should be added to the calling syntax of > setup.exe until a silent mode is added whereby everything one can do > in the interactive mode one can do in the silent mode (e.g. specifying > packages and versions from the command line). Yeah. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
