setup.exe arguments missing documentation

Sun Aug 9 12:30:00 GMT 2009

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.

-P Comma separated list of options with no spaces, like this:
-P=base,gcc-core,gvim
Ralph
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