From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: setup: uninstalling an orphaned package
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a384c4a5-6ce5-6633-1719-64589cc67673@cornell.edu> (raw)
In ChooserPage::applyCommandLinePackageSelection() we have the following
code:
bool wanted = pkg.isManuallyWanted();
bool deleted = pkg.isManuallyDeleted();
bool basemisc = (pkg.categories.find ("Base") !=
pkg.categories.end ()
|| pkg.categories.find ("Orphaned") != pkg.categories.end ());
[...]
bool reinstall = (wanted || basemisc) && deleted;
One strange consequence of this is that if the user tries to uninstall
an orphaned package on the command line, then setup will instead try to
reinstall it.
This behavior was introduced in the following commit:
commit a667a8b289ccb6e70ec6bf4c70cceeca4d3fb5d3
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date: Thu Jul 25 12:03:49 2013 +0000
[...]
Uninstalled packages in categories "Base" or "Misc" are always selected
for installation; installed packages in these categories are not
eligible for deletion and will be reinstalled or upgraded instead.
[...]
I can't understand the rationale for this. Did "Misc" (which has since
been renamed to "Orphaned") used to have a different meaning?
I found it very surprising when I tried to uninstall a bunch of packages
in unattended mode, and setup failed with download errors because it
tried to reinstall orphaned packages.
Ken
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-26 17:55 Ken Brown [this message]
2018-03-27 19:05 ` Ken Brown
2018-06-10 20:58 ` Jon Turney
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