From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18141 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2013 20:46:43 -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 18131 invoked by uid 89); 9 Nov 2013 20:46:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail3.ks.pochta.ru Received: from Unknown (HELO mail3.ks.pochta.ru) (62.141.94.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:46:41 +0000 Received: from [91.77.225.56] (port=51191 helo=U250) by mail3.ks.pochta.ru with esmtpsa id 1VfFQN-00028s-0L for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:46:31 +0400 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:46:00 -0000 From: Mikhail Usenko To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cygcheck-dep-1.0-1 Message-Id: <20131110004620.cb2847acc9451820a7119f43@nm.ru> In-Reply-To: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21B2CD9@MLBXV06.nih.gov> References: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21B2CD9@MLBXV06.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RSpam-Score: 30 X-RSpam-Report: This message is unlikely spam. X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00210.txt.bz2 Hello Barry, On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 04:11:33 +0000 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <...> wrote: > > I'd be interested in getting a more detailed explanation of the > difference between -i and -I. The best I can tell from experiment, one > can uninstall all packages listed in an island by -i. But the listings > of -I cannot be uninstalled because package not in the list depend on > them. If that is correct, how does one use the information given by -I? > What can one do with it? > -I is merely for informational purposes. It shows all groups of packages with circular dependencies (or perhaps all-to-all dependencies). Every single package from such a group cannot be uninstalled individually, but the whole group can be if no other packages require packages from the group. -i shows these groups. -- -- 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