Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-30 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 30.03.2021 19:18, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-03-30 02:07, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 30.03.2021 07:51, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: If you repeat the update of installed Cygwin packages for a while, it's quite possible that there are some packages that were installed as dependency but are

Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin writes: > as currently we are not tracking between choosen packages > and installed by dependency, Cygwin is lacking such capabilities We do, since this commit in 2016: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-setup.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6d6c600edffdb83a57ed13384e38a504fdc366b

Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-30 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-03-30 02:07, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 30.03.2021 07:51, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: If you repeat the update of installed Cygwin packages for a while, it's quite possible that there are some packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required by any others. Then is

Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-30 Thread Yasuhiro Kimura
From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin Subject: Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:07:04 +0200 > as currently we are not tracking between choosen packages > and installed by dependency, Cygwin is lacking such capabi

Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-30 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 30.03.2021 07:51, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote: Hello, If you repeat the update of installed Cygwin packages for a while, it's quite possible that there are some packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required by any others. Then is there any way to detect and uninstall such o

How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required

2021-03-29 Thread Yasuhiro Kimura
Hello, If you repeat the update of installed Cygwin packages for a while, it's quite possible that there are some packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required by any others. Then is there any way to detect and uninstall such ones? I expect such way as `apt autoremove` of