X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4D97DF02.1050009@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:44:18 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Suggestions to setup.exe References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 4/2/2011 12:44 PM, Tony wrote: > Hi. I just installed this package here which brought with it a ton of > dependancies. Why can't setup.exe, when I want to uninstall this > package, also uninstall all the dependancies? Please make the next > Cygwin release support "clean uninstalls". That's not as easy as it might initially sound. Uninstalling all dependencies might result in other utilities not working, since these dependencies could be shared. Determining the dependencies to install is easier than determining those that are safe to uninstall. So that's by way of explanation for why you see the behavior you currently see from 'setup.exe' when uninstalling a package. That said, it is possible to figure out which dependencies could safely be uninstalled. That part of your request could be implemented in the future. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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