From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2272 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2014 23:42:11 -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 2257 invoked by uid 89); 31 Dec 2014 23:42:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:42:09 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBVNg72N002736 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:42:08 -0500 Received: from [10.10.116.17] ([10.10.116.17]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBVNg6ov007823 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:42:07 -0500 Message-ID: <54A489D0.1070907@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:42:00 -0000 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies) References: <54A47981.4070101@alice.it> In-Reply-To: <54A47981.4070101@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00405.txt.bz2 On 2014-12-31 16:32, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: >> This sounds contradictory to what you're asking above. > > No, it is as modern package managers work. Also 'port' in MacPorts has > similar options (they call these packages 'requested'). For example, on > OSX I have installed only 21 (chosen by me, i.e. *requested*), but the > total number of package installed (as a result of dependencies) is 254. > In principle reinstalling the 21 packages should reinstall all the 254 > but sometimes the dependencies change. Having a less package to > reinstall makes simpler to follow the process of > installation/re-installation. > > I think Cygwin has this (maybe I read this on the list) but I don't > remember, exactly, the command.. :-( Once installed, Cygwin does not distinguish between packages that were chosen for installation and those that were installed as dependencies. Yaakov -- 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