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On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Eliah Kagan wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> > If you want a use a popup, please make it aware of the --quiet option!
> > [snip]
> > And could the 'file in use' message box also respect the --quiet option?
>
> Perhaps there could be a flag to cause setup.exe to succeed quietly in
> spite of such warnings (update the package anyway), and another to
> cause setup.exe to "gracefully degrade" quietly in the face of them
> (continue but skip updating the package and skip other updates with
> the updated version of the package as a dependency).

The latter is not possible, since by the time the in-use file is detected,
setup may have upgraded the package that depends on it (when there are
circular dependencies).

> [snip]
> On the other hand, I suppose there is some question of whether or not
> additional structure should be added to the calling syntax of
> setup.exe until a silent mode is added whereby everything one can do
> in the interactive mode one can do in the silent mode (e.g. specifying
> packages and versions from the command line).

Yeah.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
	Igor
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