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On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:50:48AM -0700, Ian Kelling wrote:
>Excerpt from ./setup-1.7.exe --help:
>-P --packages                          Specify packages to install
>-l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
>
>I know from the faq that -l takes an argument of the package directory. This 
>should be expressed in the --help output. Something like:
>
>-l --local-package-dir DIR                Local package directory
>or
>-l --local-package-dir=DIRECTORY          Local package directory
>
>Since I haven't seen an example of the -P options, and from the help I have 
>no idea if it means that there should be an argument to it naming a package, 
>or multiple packages.

A patch to change the help output would be welcome.

cgf

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