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Heads-up: xfig uninstall
- From: Yaakov S <yselkowitz at netscape dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:34:42 -0500
- Subject: Heads-up: xfig uninstall
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Something I came across regarding the xfig package:
xfig-base requires xfig-lib and xfig-lib requires xfig-base. Sounds at
first like it make sense, but it leads to a very interesting problem:
this makes it very difficult to uninstall.
Actually it reminds me of an old arcade game, where a head would pop up
in one place, and when you go to hit it, it would appear somewhere else,
~ etc. If xfig-base and xfig-lib are both installed (which due to their
inter-dependency they would be) and you first select one to uninstall.
When you go to choose the other for uninstall, first you must click-thru
Reinstall (Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall ...) which then triggers the first
to Keep. You can go back and forth like this for a while until you feel
like you're playing that game again.
I did find one work-around by accident, although I forgot exactly how I
did it. It involves an interrupted (un)install of one of the two,
followed by another run of setup.exe which can then uninstall both.
I'm sure xfig is a nice package, but I don't see a need for anyone to be
stuck with it. :-)
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Yaakov Selkowitz
Cygwin 'd' maintainer
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