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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha8ueg2v.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DF0B86.5030402@etr-usa.com>

Warren Young writes:
> I've run into this after installing everything yesterday for my "size
> of Cygwin" research project.  Now I'm trying to remove most of that
> piece by piece, but I keep getting tangled in dependency webs.

In that case (and unrelated to the problem you noted with setup.exe) you
might just look up which packages were installed since you've started
that experiment (ls -lrt /etc/setup) and uninstall all of those past
that date threshold.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-23 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22  0:06 Warren Young
2014-01-22  0:44 ` Warren Young
2014-01-22  1:02   ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-22  6:02     ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-22 15:04       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-23 16:35         ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:01         ` Thrall, Bryan
2014-01-23 17:20           ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:37             ` Thrall, Bryan
2014-01-23 17:47           ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-22 21:04       ` Warren Young
2014-01-23  1:13         ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-23 14:36           ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 15:18             ` Cliff Hones
2014-01-23 15:40               ` AW: [bulk] - " DEWI - N. Zacharias
2014-01-23 16:41                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-23 16:32               ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 17:20               ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-23 17:58 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2014-01-23 20:11   ` Warren Young
2014-01-23 23:15 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2014-01-24 11:05 ` Andrey Repin

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