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On 7/21/2010 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote:
> Hello everyone.  Today I accidentally installed many new packages into
> my cygwin setup, namely X and Gnome, and I didn't want them.  How do I
> uninstall them?

If it really is all of Gnome and X11 that you want to uninstall, you can
trying uninstalling Gnome and then X11 in the "Category" view, in that order
and one at a time.

If you need to uninstall individual packages, then try Andy's suggestion.

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