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Subject: Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies)
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Once installed, Cygwin does not distinguish between packages that were
> chosen for installation and those that were installed as dependencies.

This is a shame. As Warren said, this makes it impossible for something like
"apt-get autoremove" to exist on Cygwin. I have request for this already

http://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/issues/26

I am going to implement it, but it will only work for packages installed with
the script, not with setup.exe.

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