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Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:04:09 -0500
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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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