install/upgrade/uninstall - allow confirming for remaining installs (aka Yes to All) about choco HOT 8 CLOSED

No versions. Please ensure you've read our SUBMITTING ISSUES and CONTRIBUTING documents. This clearly falls into the latter (enhancement). It may be more appropriate for you to jump into gitter and talk through some things you would like to see prior to filing tickets. https://gitter.im/chocolatey/choco - at least at first since this is very new.

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How would you have this work when the command line is choco install packages.config or choco install git ruby notepadplusplus?

It seems better if you would have the option on the prompt to confirm all future items.

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Sorry for the wrong submission location. I know I don't have time to usher this one through some type of acceptance process - not sure if there is a way to drop them somewhere.

With the suggestion I was trying to strike a balance with your new initiative to prompt on packages. So if the most conservative is to prompt for each dependency and the most permissive is to set a config file to confirm everything - this is a possible middle ground.

So if multiple packages are being installed, one prompt per package, but have an option that says "yes and yes to all dependencies" for each one.

Maybe the first prompt lists the dependencies so I know what I am accepting with "yes to all dependencies" - This is what YUM on linux does. It also lists the file sizes.

Also support a command line option that accepts all package and all dependencies of those packages that I give on one command line.

And a config file too - that if I just want all to be confirmed all the time I time I can enable it.

Prompting for each dependency feels a little too much like UAC prompts when trying to copy files from a network share to the c:\windows folder did under Windows Vista RTM.

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Yeah, it could get crazy... :/

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I reworked the ticket up though so no worries :)

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I agree with the Yes to All suggestion and would add that looping through all the confirmations before installing any package (not sure if that's possible) would allow to respond yes/no to all packages if you need to cherry pick and then batch install the packages rather then actually confirming one, then installing (can take a while), then asking for another confirmation, etc. First ask for all confirmations, then install; I think it would be easier for the user.

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This is completed and will be available for v0.10.14.

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This is not exactly in the format I would have really liked to get to. However to be able to list everything like you see in Yum and then ask you to continue or not, we need to own more of the graph so we can inspect and gather the information ahead of time. This does however allow you to pre-confirm all remaining installs, so there is still value in this getting released in the way it can be implemented for now.

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