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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:50:04 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Unable to uninstall python 2.7 via the Cygwin setup program
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On 07/28/2014 12:01 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am running Cygwin 64-bit on Windows 7 and had installed the
> following packages using the Cygwin Setup program (v2.850 64 bit):
>    python
>    python-openssl
>    python-setuptools
>    python-tkinter
>    python3
>    python3-openssl
>    python3-tkinter
> I then tried to uninstall them using the same tool, and while I could
> uninstall all the python3 packages, I couldn't uninstall python and
> python-tkinter. When I tried to uninstall one, it would pop up an
> error about the other being a dependency, and the same sort of thing
> happened when I tried to uninstall both. As a result, I can't get rid
> of python.
>
> Does this make sense? I'm hoping someone can suggest a simple fix.

This is a known limitation of setup*.exe.  Its dependency checking is
focused on installing, not uninstalling.  As a result, you can sometimes
get into a dependency loop like this when you're trying to uninstall.
For now, there is no solution using setup*.exe.  You can, however, remove
the files from the packages you don't want by hand by using the list of
files it installed as returned by *cygcheck -l <package name>*.  That
should take care of the majority of what was done in the installation,
if not all of it.

-- 
Larry

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