Is an msi still the preffered package installer type?

[NobleSavage]

So when I first started automating software installs back in the day the prevailing wisdom was to repacking everything in an msi for control over the installation parameters. Nowadays it seems like several vendors give you the installation switches you need right in the exe. So my question is now with SCCM2012 should I focus any of my time on repacking exe's or extracting the msi's out of the exe's and then editing them with an msi editing software or just leave the exe as is?

[kingbuzzo]

Yesh, what is the way to go as many are exe's...

[jkabaseball]

Depends on what you are doing. If you just want to silently install and application, and the EXE works, then there isn't much reason to change it. You can use EXE or scripts as Applications as well as Packages.