From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 02:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70301ba6-8055-6732-c775-578f55d91212@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d43823e-e8b2-d328-4714-e7b9113af59d@t-online.de>
On 2017-02-13 14:19, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 13.02.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Leo Lagos:
>
>> I executed setup.exe, tried to do this with just one check (uninstall
>> x11-org-server, I think I did), but it only uninstalled that package
>> alone!
>>
>> I expected setup.exe to be smart enough to tell me "if you uninstall
>> this X package, these others W, Y, Z,etc., will also be
>> uninstalled"... but no...
>>
>> So, is setup.exe smart enough to do this? Or do I have to know exactly
>> which packages to uninstall, one by one??? :(
>
> Got to the "Category" view, find the X11 category, single-click the
> circle-of-arrows icon a couple times until it reads: Uninstall. You
> may have to blanket-uninstall some other categories, too (KDE, Xfce,
> GNOME, LXDE, ...) for this to work. GO.
Beat me to it!
You may want to inspect the individual entries to be Uninstalled and
check some of those to Keep e.g. fonts, other not strictly X packages.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-13 17:56 Leo Lagos
2017-02-13 21:19 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2017-02-14 2:20 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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