From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21583 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2010 23:53:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 21570 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Apr 2010 23:53:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:53:39 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O01XV-0007rL-Mr for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:53:37 +0200 Received: from c-24-23-120-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net ([24.23.120.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:53:37 +0200 Received: from seh by c-24-23-120-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:53:37 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Steven E. Harris" Subject: Re: installer improvements Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8339z54i2p.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> References: <4BBB2836.3000601@gmail.com> <20100406165429.GB19247@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-04/txt/msg00419.txt.bz2 Tim McDaniel writes: > I then clicked on qt3-doc's New value repeatedly to reach Uninstall, > but on the first click (Reinstall, I think), setup.exe put qt3 back to > being installed. It's this same cycling-activates-dependencies problem that makes it impossible to remove all X Windows-related packages once any one of them is installed. The relationships between all the font, graphics, and sound packages is mystifying. I don't want to use any of them, but I can't seem to get rid of them. On several occasions I've spent about an hour trying again and again to request that they all be removed, but there's always one that's a dependency of something else installed, and if you dare accidentally cycle through the Skip/Keep/Install/Remove choice one step too far, the house of cards tumbles down again. -- Steven E. Harris -- 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