From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100722045527.GA21809@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinvMTF2fWtjEfXPxsw2yFV24BJVO6sPbe1TXGmB@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:01:23PM -0400, Alex Leigh wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote:
>>
>> After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing,
>> configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot
>> of X and Gnome related packages. ?Now I want to remove them all
>> because I don't want them. ?However, when I re-run setup.exe and try
>> to click the various packages to uninstall, it changes other packages
>> that I had previously selected to uninstall back to "keep."
>> The only option I see that's available to me is to completely
>> uninstall cygwin and then re-install the packages I do want. ?That
>> does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to
>> remove lots of related packages.
>>
>
>I've also run into this annoyance and I found another workaround you
>could try. First, empty the Cygwin package cache on your local
>computer. Then run Setup.exe, choosing "Install from local directory".
>Then you can click on packages to uninstall them without cycling
>through the "Reinstall" option which is what's causing dependent
>packages to be reset to "Keep".
Interesting way of dealing with the problem. I never would have thought
of that.
We really should fix setup.exe so that it is easier to uninstall stuff.
It's a real problem.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 21:50 Brad De Vries
2010-07-21 21:55 ` Andy Koppe
2010-07-22 3:01 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2010-07-22 4:55 ` Alex Leigh
2010-07-22 5:11 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2010-07-22 7:37 ` Andy Koppe
2010-07-22 5:13 ` Brad De Vries
2010-07-22 19:48 ` Andrey Repin
2010-07-26 17:10 ` Brad De Vries
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