On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:06:14AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>And some of us just run setup from the command line and never even >>>bother with the GUI until it has run to completion.... >>There's that too. I am hoping to make that even more convenient >>eventually. I'd like to get rid of all remnants of the GUI when -q (or >>some other option) is specified on the command line. > >Ahhhh, wouldn't that be nice. > >One additional feature that might be useful is a command line switch >that allows a search through the package list that puts out a list of >matches. > >Think of it as a grep through setup.ini > >On the other hand, once you've installed the base system it's pretty >easy to write a script that does the same thing. > >And now I'm wandering off topic. Start a new thread for replies >please.
My hidden agenda is to make setup.exe completely usable as a command-line package installer. Sometimes I think that the only way to do that is to write a wrapper around setup.exe to do more interesting stuff and filter its output. Sometimes I think it really should be done in the setup.exe code itself. But then I take a close look at the setup.exe code itself and... cgf
