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Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies)
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 19:00:43 +0300
- Subject: Re: A list of installed packages (no dependencies)
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Greetings, Steven Penny!
>> Once installed, Cygwin does not distinguish between packages that were
>> chosen for installation and those that were installed as dependencies.
> This is a shame. As Warren said, this makes it impossible for something like
> "apt-get autoremove" to exist on Cygwin. I have request for this already
> http://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/issues/26
> I am going to implement it, but it will only work for packages installed with
> the script, not with setup.exe.
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 01.01.2015, <19:00>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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