From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8093 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 05:56:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8085 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 05:56:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 05:56:14 -0000 Received: from msu.edu (m1b1a5e42.tmodns.net [66.94.26.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by central.ixn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i025trMN063839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:56:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FF507E4.7030009@msu.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:56:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Heads-up: xfig uninstall References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 List-Id: Yaakov, Thanks, I fixed the circular dependency. It should show up on mirrors within 24 hours. Harold Yaakov S wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Something I came across regarding the xfig package: > > xfig-base requires xfig-lib and xfig-lib requires xfig-base. Sounds at > first like it make sense, but it leads to a very interesting problem: > this makes it very difficult to uninstall. > > Actually it reminds me of an old arcade game, where a head would pop up > in one place, and when you go to hit it, it would appear somewhere else, > ~ etc. If xfig-base and xfig-lib are both installed (which due to their > inter-dependency they would be) and you first select one to uninstall. > When you go to choose the other for uninstall, first you must click-thru > Reinstall (Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall ...) which then triggers the first > to Keep. You can go back and forth like this for a while until you feel > like you're playing that game again. > > I did find one work-around by accident, although I forgot exactly how I > did it. It involves an interrupted (un)install of one of the two, > followed by another run of setup.exe which can then uninstall both. > > I'm sure xfig is a nice package, but I don't see a need for anyone to be > stuck with it. :-) > > Anyway, I hope this helps. > > > Yaakov Selkowitz > Cygwin 'd' maintainer > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE/9HZRpiWmPGlmQSMRAnhFAKDFoNabvD93suOlKT+oftIqn/QGFQCglNdi > okb+3xbiRBrK/ki2C1amKgs= > =7EX8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >