[lucajona]

I totally agree. Self-contained installs without side-effects are the goal for Scoop, and it's almost there. Scoop extracts NSIS/NullSoft and InnoSetup installers already, and if all goes well it'll extract MSI installers soon too (using lessmsi).

If you're building your own package for Scoop and you just want to run the installer, there's good support for that too.

[duncans]

Note you can extract an MSI using:

    msiexec /a foo.msi /qb TARGETDIR="c:\temp\bar"

[lucajona]

Thank you so much! I've seen that before but assumed the /a 'administrative install' meant UAC popups. Just tried it now (with /qn though) and it's UI-free. Very cool!