On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:36:05AM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote: >cgf wrote: >>So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation >>and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and >>are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it. > >What I did was re-run setup.exe. XWin would still not startup. Then I >Deleted the cygwin install (except for the package directory). >Setup.exe Did not recall/remember/read the package directory, it did a >default install.
I guess what you're not getting is that the list of installed packages is located within the cygwin installation itself. If you wipe out then setup.exe won't know what's installed. >The good news is XWin works now. The bad news is I must >remember/find/set the >Various packages I need in addition to the default. > >I'm confused as to why the notion of setup.exe to leave a >bread-crumb-trail of what was installed for-the-purpose-of driving a >subsequent installation is such a controversial issue.... It's not controversial since setup.exe already does that. You just chose to wipe out the record of what's installed. If you wanted to just reinstall X you could have just chosen "Reinstall" and not gone through the pain of wiping out everything. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/