On 4/8/2010 8:13 PM, Steven E. Harris wrote: > I think the problem here is that the cycle goes from > > Default -> Install -> Reinstall -> Uninstall > > Upon that first transition to Install, all the packages in that category > are requested for installation, along with all their > dependencies. Continuing through the cycle to finally reach Uninstall > does not undo the earlier damage from the transition to Install; many of > the packages added by Install are not removed by Uninstall. Try it and > see. It's a trap. > > Trying to coordinate this process among the X11, Gnome, KDE, and any > other X-related categories isn't possible. There's no way to jump > straight from "current installed state" to Uninstall without first > accidentally requesting that the installed set of packages expand rather > than contract.
Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can directly choose "Uninstall" without traversing the entire cycle. Rinse and repeat on all the items you want to remove... However, I think this is veering off into either 'setup' (e.g. cygwin-apps@) or 'cygwin/X" (e.g. cygwin-xfree@) territory. -- Chuck -- 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