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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:17:16PM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote: >I'm testing the waters to check that I'm not duplicating someone elses work. >I've started adding command line options to the setup program. My goal would >be to get to the stage where I don't need to click anything to >download/install from my favourite mirror. > >I thought it best to mirror the options in the dialog boxes, so I came up >with these options: > >-netinstall >-netdownload >-localinstall >-packagedir >-rootdir >-dos >-unix >-allusers >-justme >-noproxy >-ie >-proxy >-ftpsite >-all_new > >I haven't got it all working yet, and I'm very much a part time developer, >so don't hold your breathe (unless I should submit the easy bits that I've >got working...). I agree with the option names being similar to the dialog boxes but I'd prefer that you use '--' options. If you could invent suitable short '-q' style options that would be good too. I think this is a great idea. People have been asking for this. I could use it myself, in fact. cgf
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