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Subject: RE: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:34:53 +0100
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On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote:

> (this is just one of many annoyances in the cygwin installer, but it's
> a really stupid one that i just ran into)
> when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them
> (exmaple: Util/bzip2 and Libs/libbz2)
> why?
> both packages are set to "Keep"
> when you click "Keep", it changes to "Reinstall", and on another click
> to "Uninstall"
> but whenever a package is set to "Reinstall", it's dependancies are re-added
> if there's a one-way dependancy, once could remove the depending
> package first... but if it's two-way, it's impossible
> (whenever the second package is clicked once and set to "Reinstall",
> the first is re-selected, even if it's immediately clicked again to
> set it to "Uninstall")


  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"



    cheers,
      DaveK
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