Hi -- I have a question on the uninstalling procedure for individual packages with the Cygwin Setup utility.
My exemplary problem: I can't seem to uninstall the libXft, libXft1, libXft2 and X11 altogether. But I guess this problem is more general. The reason is that the mentioned packages are an example for mutual dependencies, and the cyclical choice of options in connection with automatic and permanent reset of dependencies results in "deadlocks". If packages are mutually dependent, like the above ones, cycling options from from Keep to Uninstall, the intermediate Reinstall option for one of these packages always resets any Uninstall intended for the others. Maybe someone can give me a hint on the correct usage. I think this is a design or usability problem, that could be solved (1) by avoiding direct dependency resolution and solely relying on the dependency step after the finalising Next command, (2) by allowing to directly choose Uninstall without having to cycle through various unwanted options, or, possibly the simplest solution, (3) by calculating minimal dependencies and not sticking to Reinstall like above. Thanks for any hints, gregor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
