Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Lex Ein" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:16:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1083982614.30359.196068555@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: Using Setup.exe to uninstall - bogus X-IsSubscribed: yes If there exists a sensible method for trimming the bulk of an existing Cygwin installation on a running disk-limited REMOTE system accessible only via ssh, I'd love to know it. I've completely lost patience. On a remote system, I've been trying to uninstall large chunks of Cygwin (x, db). Using Setup.exe to do this is like playing Whack-a-Mole, and is extremely frustrating. The "Keep | Reinstall | Source | Version1 | Version2...| Uninstall" click-to-rotate control forces dependancies both far and near while I'm trying to _reach_ Uninstall. Uninstall LEAVES THOSE DEPENDANCIES ACTIVATED. Without a way to select Uninstall without clocking through all the other dependancy activators, it's impossible to remove features and all their dependancies stickily. In fact, the very process of trying to do this piece by piece has resulted in masses of other crap being installed which I don't need. It's rather disturbing, as I'm running out of space on the remote system. L flames->dev/null -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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/