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Jason Pyeron wrote:
> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html says: "Unfortunately
> setup.exe does not yet support unattended installs."

< snip>

> Is kludging the package list file the best way to go?

The HEAD of the setup tree does support unattended scripted
installs of whatever packages you like. There's no need
to kludge the package list file...

Just grab the current HEAD source and compile it and you're
good to go.

Ralph

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