Hello Barry, On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 04:11:33 +0000 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <...> wrote:
> > I'd be interested in getting a more detailed explanation of the > difference between -i and -I. The best I can tell from experiment, one > can uninstall all packages listed in an island by -i. But the listings > of -I cannot be uninstalled because package not in the list depend on > them. If that is correct, how does one use the information given by -I? > What can one do with it? > -I is merely for informational purposes. It shows all groups of packages with circular dependencies (or perhaps all-to-all dependencies). Every single package from such a group cannot be uninstalled individually, but the whole group can be if no other packages require packages from the group. -i shows these groups. -- -- 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
