I have now had the opportunity to test this thanks to a hard drive corruption and Windows re-install.
Positive:
The ninite site keeps up-to date with new versions of each of the software titles it offers. 5 of the apps were updated this week.
The app options you select effectively creates a small (300k) script application which you download and run, this then proceeds to download and install each selected application in order.
Repeatable - the 300k app can be copied to a USB stick and re-run on other PCs or kept as a backup. I expect, given the method used, that it will always download the latest version of each app regardless of what date the 300k script file was created.
Negative:
No control over default install directories. All my apps get installed to my F: drive, not my C:, this has now duplicated them all on my freshly installed C: drive so I now have to uninstall and do it all manually anyway. If you want to keep your apps and docs separate from your O/S, this is not for you.
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