Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them

2006-08-14 Thread Charles Wilson
joe trree wrote: (this is just one of many annoyances in the cygwin installer, but it's a really stupid one that i just ran into) when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them (exmaple: Util/bzip2 and Libs/libbz2) You're right. Dependency loops are bad -- but sometim

RE: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them

2006-08-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 August 2006 15:07, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: >>> Can you work around this problem by (starting with both at "Keep") >>> >>> - set first package to "Reinstall" >>> - set second pac

Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them

2006-08-14 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: > > Can you work around this problem by (starting with both at "Keep") > > > > - set first package to "Reinstall" > > - set second package to "Reinstall" > > - set first package to "Unins

Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them

2006-08-14 Thread Darryl Miles
Dave Korn wrote: On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: Can you work around this problem by (starting with both at "Keep") - set first package to "Reinstall" - set second package to "Reinstall" - set first package to "Uninstall" - set second package to "Uninstall" Maybe it would be in

RE: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them

2006-08-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: > (this is just one of many annoyances in the cygwin installer, but it's > a really stupid one that i just ran into) > when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them > (exmaple: Util/bzip2 and Libs/libbz2) > why? > both packages a