X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Brad De Vries Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Alex Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote: >> >> After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing, >> configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot >> of X and Gnome related packages. =A0Now I want to remove them all >> because I don't want them. =A0However, when I re-run setup.exe and try >> to click the various packages to uninstall, it changes other packages >> that I had previously selected to uninstall back to "keep." >> The only option I see that's available to me is to completely >> uninstall cygwin and then re-install the packages I do want. =A0That >> does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to >> remove lots of related packages. >> > > I've also run into this annoyance and I found another workaround you > could try. First, empty the Cygwin package cache on your local > computer. Then run Setup.exe, choosing "Install from local directory". > Then you can click on packages to uninstall them without cycling > through the "Reinstall" option which is what's causing dependent > packages to be reset to "Keep". > > Alex Thanks Alex, and everyone else that made suggestions. I'll give this a try tomorrow and report back. BTW, I second the motion to fix setup.exe. Brad. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple