From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24731 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2010 04:55:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 24722 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jul 2010 04:55:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-48-4.bstnma.east.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.48.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:55:29 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D0913C061 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id D1DA22B352; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:11:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how? Message-ID: <20100722045527.GA21809@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00454.txt.bz2 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 -- 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