X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:52:08 +0100 Message-ID: <004701c6bfb1$372b0280$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 14 August 2006 15:07, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: >>> Can you work around this problem by (starting with both at "Keep") >>> >>> - set first package to "Reinstall" >>> - set second package to "Reinstall" >>> - set first package to "Uninstall" >>> - set second package to "Uninstall" >> >> Maybe it would be intuitive ask the user (by providing a dialogue box >> with package list and count) to implicitly set the Reinstall/Uninstall >> operation on all mutually-dependant packages and their descendants in the >> same operation. >> >> A two button dialog offering "Abort" or "Include". > > A simpler solution would be to make the "Uninstall" option precede the > "Reinstall" in the rotator. It's been discussed before. It occurs to me to wonder if we really need to update the dependencies in realtime anymore, now that we have the 'unresolved dependencies' screen available. It might be easiest just to let people set their package selections how they like and not do any dependency resolving until they click 'next'. Perhaps even provide an extra button to trigger dependency resolution at any time the user likes in the package selection screen as well. (However, as you say, SHTDI...) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/