I appreciate both of your helpful replies. I guessed there would be ways
to 'trick' the setup using configuration files and looked a little bit,
but
hadn't figured out how to do it. I understand both of your answers and
will consider them if my patch (see next) takes some time to be accepted.
I did determine how to change the setup code in order to set the initial
installation mode to 'install' instead of 'default'. Once I found the
place, it turned out to be a very small change. Basically I added a new
command line option '-I, --install' that installs all available patches,
rather than only installing the 'default' patches.
The patch is included below. This patch is relative to the HEAD version,
but the same patch can be applied to the current release code without any
changes. From what I could tell, posting the patch to this list is the
appropriate first step to its possible inclusion in the code. I hope the
patch can be included, as it will be very helpful to me and my user base,
and seems to have a very small probability of introducing problems.
If there is a better way to submit this patch, please let me know.