From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 89360 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2016 13:42:02 -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 88230 invoked by uid 89); 1 Nov 2016 13:42:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:WidHCQf3oyYg, H*f:sk:jA@mail, H*MI:sk:jA@mail, H*MI:sk:MGO8o8W X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:41:51 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EB9207D9; Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:41:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:41:49 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-94.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.94]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E2425CCF40; Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:41:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation To: Keith Christian , cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <900b70f7-7a0f-568e-5a13-2da924e0507d@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:42:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 On 01/11/2016 13:04, Keith Christian wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >> While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or >> GNOME categories. >> >> Are the command line switches to remove KDE and GNOME the following? >> >> setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE Sadly, it seems that the repeated option is not handled correctly by setup at the moment, so you will need to use the syntax setup-x86.exe -c GNOME,KDE >> Is there a setup-x86.exe switch to avoid downloading and installing >> GNOME and KDE categories so that a separate remove command is not >> necessary? >> >> I'd rather put this (e.g. setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE) in a batch >> file to avoid clicking around in the Cygwin Setup GUI to avoid >> installing or re-installing GNOME and KDE categories. It's a bit unclear why you would need to do this more than once. If these packages keep getting reinstalled because of dependencies, then perhaps you really do need them. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > > Any feedback on this question? Would rather not destroy the Cygwin > install on my work computer if there is a problem with my SWAG at > removing GNOME and KDE categories. -- 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