Re: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I must call setup twice to completely uninstall gcc or to downgrade gcc. Gcc is not the only case. My boss wanted me to clean cygwin off of his computer, so as a lark I tried to use setup to do it. I had to run setup about 50 times, because of all the circular

Re: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
(*) Hmm. This is a pretty complex operation. Maybe we should have an uninstall cygwin completely application? Or at least a FAQ listing these steps? My guess: Isn't there already one? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all from a bash window: cygrunsrv

Re: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: (*) Hmm. This is a pretty complex operation. Maybe we should have an uninstall cygwin completely application? Or at least a FAQ listing these steps? My guess: Isn't there already one? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all Doh! I actually

RE: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 16 September 2005 14:14 Hi Setup maintainers, I need some circular dependencies, i.e. gcc-core requires gcc-core-mingw because -mno-cygwin will not work without the mingw version of the gcc runtime. However, the gcc-core-mingw package

RE: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 16 September 2005 14:14 Hi Setup maintainers, I need some circular dependencies, i.e. gcc-core requires gcc-core-mingw because -mno-cygwin will not work without the mingw version of the gcc