On 30.03.2021 19:18, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-03-30 02:07, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
On 30.03.2021 07:51, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
If you repeat the update of installed Cygwin packages for a while,
it's quite possible that there are some packages that were installed
as dependency but are no longer required by any others.
Then is there any way to detect and uninstall such ones?
I expect such way as `apt autoremove` of Debian or `dnf autoremove` of
Fedora.
as currently we are not tracking between choosen packages
and installed by dependency, Cygwin is lacking such capabilities
The undocumented third field in installed.db is automatic dependency 0 /
manually picked 1:
$ sort -k3 /etc/setup/installed.db | uniq -cf2
1 INSTALLED.DB 3
1203 _autorebase _autorebase-001007-1.tar.bz2 0
467 aalib aalib-1.4rc5-12.tar.bz2 1
it really depends on the history of the package,
I have tons of package with "0" that in reality were picked
long time ago.
So it is not 100% trustable on long time installation
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