On 4/3/2017 8:01 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 03/04/2017 23:54, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Dan, > No TOP post here please > >> That probably just means there have been updates since >> last time you installed, and it's trying to update things >> you installed before (or that get installed by default). >> >> Try running setup, don't change anything, and let it finish. >> That will grab all the updates you need. After that, it'll >> behave the way you expect. >> >> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:47 PM, d...@ucar.edu <d...@ucar.edu> wrote: >>> Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list >>> of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed. >>> I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly >>> need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to >>> uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants >>> to install the package I am trying ot uninstall. > >>> This just broken. > > That is not very descriptive. > > As Dan explained the default behavior of cygwin setup is to update > already installed packages and their dependencies. >
Maybe so but even I find that this is cumbersome. I would prefer a choice upfront just after the download and parsing of setup.ini if I want to update previously installed items. I haven't mentioned it because I don't have time to help develop that. -- cyg Simple -- 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
