Re: Uninstall python 2.7 fails - alternative dependencies

2021-03-02 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 02.03.2021 18:32, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: I attempted to remove all packages related to Python 2.7 from my cygwin installation. I am unable to remove four packages. python2 python27 python27-pip python27-setuptools Question: you can not remove because they are cross dependent or b

Re: Uninstall python 2.7 fails - alternative dependencies

2021-03-02 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 17:33, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > To assist in supporting this kind of requirement, is there a way to > create a package whose requirements are resolved by either of several > other packages? > > For instance, could we have a package e.g. python-alternatives, that > wh

Uninstall python 2.7 fails - alternative dependencies

2021-03-02 Thread Doug Henderson via Cygwin
I attempted to remove all packages related to Python 2.7 from my cygwin installation. I am unable to remove four packages. python2 python27 python27-pip python27-setuptools There are over 500 packages that require python2 and over 700 packages which depend2 on python2. There are also around 90