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Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)


Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu> writes:

> So what you want setup to do is remember whether a package was
> selected by the user or simply included to satisfy a dependency. Then
> when a package is deselected, the dependencies can be reevaluated.

That's what the Debian package management system has been doing for many
years. It distinguishes whether a package is currently installed -- or
proposed to be installed -- as a result of dependency nomination or as
an explicit request by the user. It prunes the former as the incident
dependencies change.

-- 
Steven E. Harris


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