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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Alex Vinokur" Subject: Re: Uninstall some category Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:56:28 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20051009141156 DOT 0447a698 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20051009152600 DOT 04477ee0 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> X-IsSubscribed: yes "Larry Hall" wrote in message news:6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20051009152600 DOT 04477ee0 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net... > At 03:13 PM 10/9/2005, you wrote: > > >"Larry Hall" wrote in message news:6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20051009141156 DOT 0447a698 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net... > >> At 01:43 PM 10/9/2005, you wrote: > >> >I wont to uninstall some category, for instance, "Games". > >> >What should one do? > >> > >> > >> Run 'setup.exe'. Click "Next" until one gets to the "Select Package" > >> page. Click on "Default" for "Games" until it changes to "Uninstall". > >> Click "Next". Continue as one would for any other use of 'setup.exe'. > >> > > > >[snip] > > > >OK. But other categories can contain some packages with new versions of some utilities. > >If I don't want to update those utilities, should I set "Keep" in *each* utility? > > > You should be able to select the "Keep" radio button above the list of > packages to do that This is the point. Here are list of options for categories (while "Download without installing"): * Default * Install * Reinstall * Uninstall So, the "Keep" option is missing. > but your option is also viable, though perhaps more > tedious, depending on the number of packages you have installed. Of course, I don't want to that for each relevant utility. -- Alex Vinokur email: alex DOT vinokur AT gmail DOT com http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html http://sourceforge.net/users/alexvn -- 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/