On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:01:23PM -0400, Alex Leigh wrote: >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. ?Now I want to remove them all >> because I don't want them. ?However, 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. ?That >> 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".
Interesting way of dealing with the problem. I never would have thought of that. We really should fix setup.exe so that it is easier to uninstall stuff. It's a real problem. cgf -- 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
