From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28663 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2010 03:01:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 28584 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jul 2010 03:01:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f171.google.com) (209.85.214.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:01:25 +0000 Received: by iwn41 with SMTP id 41so9805829iwn.2 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:01:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.31.202 with SMTP id z10mr1147336ibc.85.1279767683773; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.15.10 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:01:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how? From: Alex Leigh To: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 2010-07/txt/msg00453.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote: > > After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing, > configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot > of X and Gnome related packages. =A0Now I want to remove them all > because I don't want them. =A0However, when I re-run setup.exe and try > to click the various packages to uninstall, it changes other packages > that I had previously selected to uninstall back to "keep." > The only option I see that's available to me is to completely > uninstall cygwin and then re-install the packages I do want. =A0That > does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to > remove lots of related packages. > I've also run into this annoyance and I found another workaround you could try. First, empty the Cygwin package cache on your local computer. Then run Setup.exe, choosing "Install from local directory". Then you can click on packages to uninstall them without cycling through the "Reinstall" option which is what's causing dependent packages to be reset to "Keep". Alex -- 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