X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB8EA87.6090402@bopp.net> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:37:43 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Making package installation default References: <4BB681CA.2090208@bopp.net> <4BB6C3D4.8000003@cygwin.com> <4BB6C883.4020301@cygwin.com> <4BB6CFED.4030201@bopp.net> <4BB6D745.3060807@bopp.net> <4BB8C407.2040604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB8C407.2040604@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >>> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >>> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and make, some >>> may. Or perhaps they want Perl or Apache. However I want to make sure >>> that ssh is installed (it'd be nice if I could automate the running >>> ssh-host-config, for example) so that I can ssh into their machine to >>> fix things. >> I think that if you leave off the silent install option that your other >> selections set by command line options are respected in the UI, so the >> extra packages you select will show as selected by default once the user >> arrives at the package selection page. Unfortunately, you have to trust >> your users to correctly hit the Next button on every page without >> changing anything until they get to the package selection page. Whether >> or not that trust is warranted is between you and your users. ;-) > > Sounds like you want the shiny new -M/--package-manager option. Nice! I must have overlooked that option when I created my silent install batch file. My users aren't clamoring for additional package selection yet, but if they ever do, it will be great to have this feature. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple