X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=kPsgrShJZ1dh/8u5 TvV/JyE+bFHpPJqKv1FTFh8jeVXmR/Q3baDMjDID2HYLsLegriO0efz2JGfcX6+v etxLJQ5sAzsWw9H0ySuZcfNoCa6umqwKbejov7fXyibQsfAZ+irOqLTnZyRtVrmE si29lw2exFV3HPYHCjiNQhKEhHM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=XVqJHVp3iTZfeM0rDZmbpp ncF00=; b=uS4hTC+k02xRKsbA3wADYt+LaM0vv0sJuVMwR4iraSTH6mP1M7hwfz bkHpZKsTYGx+2hi33lhSkFLfCZJByRJXFRUxks7f9huXjd3b8OI8NA+Y9v5R7OYn fVLDtJGk1zzgoPcIdY31mNXUjaUK6C/ns07EiIn0EQw0UBYY3SHuA= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Marco, cygcheck-dep, cygcheckdep, atzeri X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Subject: Re: setup graphical chooser : how to list orphaned packages ? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <2d3c5da1-5944-ef91-aa48-faed2210b772 AT cornell DOT edu> <1bc4a9a6-c543-e78b-62fe-2e7ac696a1df AT cornell DOT edu> <58894cff-9ff6-9297-9efb-d37db9e49804 AT wanadoo DOT fr> <2b33c8ad-9cf3-cff5-fc44-8a5c82709006 AT laposte DOT net> <87wp3yhma5 DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> <1833fa94-bd81-d2f0-ea4c-b5d2ac43cd3b AT gmail DOT com> <2578ae0a-a6ed-9a12-502b-5d584cf194a1 AT gmail DOT com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <82d84cc5-a51c-08cb-73e1-14c8d149528d@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 12:10:37 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2578ae0a-a6ed-9a12-502b-5d584cf194a1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/15/2017 12:24 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 10/14/2017 12:11 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 14/10/2017 17:31, cyg Simple wrote: >> >>>> >>>> This is very common.  Suppose you have package A installed, which >>>> requires B.  Package B gets obsoleted by C.  But A still requires B >>>> until someone (usually the maintainer of A) changes this to make A >>>> require C instead. >>>> >>> >>> Maybe a column showing what installed packages are depending on B and a >>> column showing the dependencies for package A would be nice?  It would >>> help clear the confusion anyway. >> >> >> the cygcheck-dep package can provide dependencies information, >> I do not see the need for setup to do it >> > > So the information is available just in a different place than where it > should be, the tool I'm using to do the download. Having a separate > package to tell me the package dependencies isn't very friendly; I might > not have anything installed, certainly not cygcheck-dep and then I have > to learn and remember to use it as a side step of installation. I think most users would be distracted by seeing the dependencies displayed and would have no need for this information. On the rare occasions when they are surprised that something got installed, they can use cygcheck-dep (or ask on the list) to find the reason. Ken -- 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