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On 16/12/2025 19:22, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello Jon, Cygwinstas,
> I am attempting to operate setup.exe by commandline arguments and what I'd
> like to have happen, doesn't. In advance, sorry to bore readers if this is
> an often-discussed issue or whatever. The point I want to make is that
> `--packages' does not seem to work as how it's documented.
>

Hi Soren,

This works

setup-x86_64.exe   -P AtomicParsley,AtomicParsley,CUnit,GConf2, ..

I use it regularly with list of 1000-1500 packages.

Regards
Marco

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