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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 07:35:08 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin package management
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Michel Van den Bergh wrote:

> I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it?
> I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is executable
> from a script.

No such thing exists.  setup.exe has some undocumented/unsupported
command line args that you can use for unattended updates, but it's
really not meant to be used that way.

Brian

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