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Package list search (was Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup)
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:15:28 -0500
- Subject: Package list search (was Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup)
Ralph Hempel wrote on Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:06 AM:
> 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
You mean like 'cygcheck -p <desired filename>'?
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Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com