From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: How to uninstall packages that were installed as dependency but are no longer required Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:07:04 +0200
> as currently we are not tracking between choosen packages > and installed by dependency, Cygwin is lacking such capabilities > > the most likely candidates for removal are the different version > of the same libraries > > $ cygcheck -cd | grep "^lib" | tee lib.txt > > in my case I see > > libvpx1 1.3.0-2 > libvpx3 1.5.0-1 > libvpx4 1.6.1-1 > libvpx5 1.7.0-1 > > $ cygcheck-dep -q -n libvpx1 libvpx3 libvpx4 libvpx5 > libvpx1: is needed for ( ) > libvpx3: is needed for ( ) > libvpx4: is needed for ( ) > libvpx5: is needed for ( gstreamer1.0-plugins-good libvpx-devel ) > > Regards > Marco I didn't know cygcheck-dep package and it seems very helpful to uninstall unnecessary dependency. Thanks for letting me know it. --- Yasuhiro Kimura -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
