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Ken Jackson wrote:

> I agree.  And even for simple operations I find it a bother to have to
> start up a gui to install a package or check for updates.
> 
> It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. For
> example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for the case you cite, you could
> do this:

Do you mean something like:

   setup -q -n -D -L %SITE% %LOCALDIR% %PACKAGES%

Ralph

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