Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/23/16:56:04
I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
I've been trying to uninstall the X11 packages for Cygwin, but a circular dependency combined with the nature of setup.exe seems to make this impossible. xorg-x11-bin requires libXft and libXft requires xorg-x11-bin. So, if both are installed, they become very difficult to remove: First you select one for uninstallation, then when you go to select the other for uninstallation you must toggle from Keep to Reinstall first, which reselects the first one for installation. The only possible way to select two things at once is if both are in the same category, but in this case, they aren't, so it appears there really is no way out. The same circular dependency problem exists with xorg-x11-bin and libXft1.
It seems this problem could easily be fixed if setup.exe toggled from Keep to Uninstall before toggling to Reinstall, instead of the current scheme. Then one could select packages for uninstallation without accidentally activating dependencies, and circularly dependent packages in different categories could thus be uninstalled.
Like I said, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list on which to point out this problem. But for the time being, I just wanted to bring this to some attention (and also ask if there is any other way to uninstall X11).
-Sridhar Ramesh
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