From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18090 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2017 16:11:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17768 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2017 16:11:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Marco, B, C, b X-HELO: mail-wm0-f44.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f44.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f44.google.com) (74.125.82.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:11:57 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f44.google.com with SMTP id f4so26694011wme.0 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:11:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=IgqUjxNDUuvBY1gHMBg+C+eGynL4N5KbrgawglVuR+A=; b=hSE+xom9rrxBvWx0ZhxFYhSLHVFbTfLqmENimHjVrbRIGJH14SlUDtogTJq4KZVDWo n2dEgZoNpRNXtFnj4p38PZEzjv6M5unNE4kDM8eQirTI474u2ar4YaWxBYun6D8SaG6c 8yzlCLnuIFuUa1c4+psLTTpSIJCAl6hSYhoS43OFzdgZrJ7O6LCDUE7poGYXub85Oujs 5ERFMyV7kFe43TWa1veWV4FqxI8zGSzvNGjFANE0ZGnB7bd08uYYr+dOySaSgYQ9TMnS Dxhhzfp7U7O/6rwJQyfyu4+FPKbOXhbkbI6yedrjNFkyPE+XIODwXfZ8Xemc1mAIWFxL 7g9w== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaVgZ2bxqoSEALg/Y+XYQbAcVbuCBKzmjd8bs5lyklV3mTYJjEKK 5tVKk3ZuzyBmcITNGETThWOmlQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+S4PE+8hYabSn/j2xKqUf+8X5q7KqGeehlCz5cNkeknXOSj35gY9jTy/LCySAPKoqy20vn3nw== X-Received: by 10.28.131.131 with SMTP id f125mr3464016wmd.137.1507997515673; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (pD9ED58FB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.237.88.251]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w4sm3795147wrc.17.2017.10.14.09.11.54 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: setup graphical chooser : how to list orphaned packages ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2d3c5da1-5944-ef91-aa48-faed2210b772@cornell.edu> <1bc4a9a6-c543-e78b-62fe-2e7ac696a1df@cornell.edu> <58894cff-9ff6-9297-9efb-d37db9e49804@wanadoo.fr> <2b33c8ad-9cf3-cff5-fc44-8a5c82709006@laposte.net> <87wp3yhma5.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <1833fa94-bd81-d2f0-ea4c-b5d2ac43cd3b@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00127.txt.bz2 On 14/10/2017 17:31, cyg Simple wrote: >> >> This is very common.  Suppose you have package A installed, which >> requires B.  Package B gets obsoleted by C.  But A still requires B >> until someone (usually the maintainer of A) changes this to make A >> require C instead. >> > > Maybe a column showing what installed packages are depending on B and a > column showing the dependencies for package A would be nice? It would > help clear the confusion anyway. the cygcheck-dep package can provide dependencies information, I do not see the need for setup to do it regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple