Hi, one thing that used to bother me, especially when dealing with almost identical packages like Windows updates, was the amount of duplication in the package definitions. Now this might be a trivial thing for many, but to me it was a rather radical discovery today so I thought I'd share the idea: XML entities not only greatly reduce repetition in e.g. registry key or path names, they also make it possible to define package templates. This way, a package definition for the latest hotfix from Redmond boils down to a two- liner. Similar approaches for other kinds of package groups are imaginable. An example to demonstrate the idea is at http://wpkg.org/Package_Templates I haven't yet linked to it from anywhere but this mail, I thought of adding a link from http://wpkg.org/Category:Silent_installers_for_Windows_Hotfixes but YMMV
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