RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

["Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>]

Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:04 AM:

> Thrall, Bryan wrote:
> 
>> For example (untested), to install vim and bc:
>> 
>> setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s
'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/'
>> -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc
> 
> I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available in the 1.7
> setup.

It is available in setup.exe snapshot 2.602 (see
http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/). I think you're right that it isn't
available in the currently released version. Sorry for not mentioning
that!

-- 
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com

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