UPD: "Unneeded" packages are hard to get rid of in Setup

2023-11-30 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
UPDATE: Running "cygcheck -rvs" on the updated installation (after all the "Unneeded" packages were gone), revealed that a few packages had become "Incomplete": base-files libMagickCore6_6 libMagickCore7_9 perl perl-mapages squid I re-ran Setup and chose these packages to "Reinstall" from the

"Unneeded" packages are hard to get rid of in Setup

2023-11-30 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Hi All, I was updating my Cygwin installation at home and that had accumulated some "Unneeded" packages, which were very hard to deal with: The default disposition is "Keep" (while logically, since they are "safe to be removed", it should have been "Uninstall") so it nearly got me a carpal