can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?

can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?

[Leo Lagos]

Hi,

I want to remove all X11 related since it's no longer something I really use.

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??? :(

Regards,

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Re: can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

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.



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Re: can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?

[Brian Inglis]

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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