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Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Darryl Miles <darryl-mailinglists at netbauds dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:06:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them
- References: <01ab01c6be4e$c443ebf0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <44E0286D.2010604@netbauds.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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 "Uninstall"
> > - set second package to "Uninstall"
>
> Maybe it would be intuitive ask the user (by providing a dialogue box
> with package list and count) to implicitly set the Reinstall/Uninstall
> operation on all mutually-dependant packages and their descendants in
> the same operation.
>
> A two button dialog offering "Abort" or "Include".
A simpler solution would be to make the "Uninstall" option precede the
"Reinstall" in the rotator. It's been discussed before.
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>.
Igor
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