On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Alex Leigh <le...@hcs.harvard.edu> 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". > > Alex
Thanks Alex, and everyone else that made suggestions. I'll give this a try tomorrow and report back. BTW, I second the motion to fix setup.exe. Brad. -- 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
