On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Brad De Vries <devrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Well, I tried several times to get rid of all the undesired packages and I ended up deleting the entire cygwin install and re-installing it -- what a pain! The biggest problem I ran into with the suggestion to "install from local directory" was that it lost all the categories, not good, along with the dependencies, a good thing. What I tried to do was use the original setup directory details and get a list of all the packages in the Gnome and X categories. Then I re-ran setup without the original setup directory and tried to find the packages to uninstall, but the vast majority were not listed. I tried again with only package cache removed and the original setup.ini in place, then all the categories were listed but the dependencies were back. I tried various other options but in the end, it was easier to delete and re-install. Anyway, thanks for everyone's suggestions. 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
