Hello Sridhar, Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 um 21:37 schriebst du:
> I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, but it's > about Cygwin X11 packages, so I think I'm in the right place. > I've been trying to uninstall the X11 packages for Cygwin, but a > circular dependency combined with the nature of setup.exe seems to > make this impossible. xorg-x11-bin requires libXft and libXft > requires xorg-x11-bin. So, if both are installed, they become very > difficult to remove: First you select one for uninstallation, then > when you go to select the other for uninstallation you must toggle > from Keep to Reinstall first, which reselects the first one for > installation. The only possible way to select two things at once is > if both are in the same category, but in this case, they aren't, so > it appears there really is no way out. The same circular dependency > problem exists with xorg-x11-bin and libXft1. > Like I said, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list on > which to point out this problem, and if the circular dependency > can't be changed, perhaps what really needs changing is the toggling > order in Setup.exe between "Keep", "Reinstall", "Uninstall", etc. > But for the time being, I just wanted to bring this to some > attention (and also ask if there is any other way to uninstall X11). Run setup.exe twice? Gerrit -- =^..^=