Add a '--skip-shimgens' switch to choco.exe #2929
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Is Your Feature Request Related To A Problem? Please describe.
The problem is performance of chocolatey when installing multiple packages
Describe The Solution. Why is it needed?
The solution is a switch to skip shim generation for a package.
My use case is that I install a lot of apps like sysinternals that have a large number of shims creaated. The shims slow down the installation a lot, and I don't use them because as soon as the installation completes I copy over all small tools like these to my C:\ConsoleTools folder (which I keep in my PATH environment variable). Thus, if I had an option like --skip-shimgens I could use that switch for any app that I am going to manage myself in this way, and this would speed up installation a lot.
Additional Context
I am not suggesting getting rid of the lib folder. I keep that constantly for use with larger apps. It's just that for a lot of small / console apps, I can better manage them from a single folder. Not all sysinternals are console apps, but they fall under the small-useful-apps in my book, and I throw them into C:\ConsoleTools. Other similar apps are: cw, cmail, ntop, fzf, fd, syspin, winfetch, xxd etc, all things that are primarily single executables that I can keep on the PATH in a single folder).
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