Hello,
I run into the same problem as discussed in
https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-apps@cygwin.com/msg37597.html
I found no final decision in this mail thread and the problem is still
existing.
I would also expect cygport depends on lzip, since source files are
provided in this format.
On 02/08/2022 13:17, Christian Franke wrote:
In long standing cygwin installations, many no longer needed
automatically installed packages (e.g. libicuNN) accumulate. This patch
adds a new view which is possibly helpful to cleanup packages manually.
Some possible later enhancements:
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This eases state changes of a selected sequence of packages.
Ctrl+U is in particular useful to cleanup installations in conjunction
with "unneeded" view:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2022-August/042185.html
Open issue: Add some visual clue (tooltip?) to make this functionality
