Heads-up: xfig uninstall
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Jan 2 05:56:00 GMT 2004
Yaakov,
Thanks, I fixed the circular dependency. It should show up on mirrors
within 24 hours.
Harold
Yaakov S wrote:
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> Something I came across regarding the xfig package:
>
> xfig-base requires xfig-lib and xfig-lib requires xfig-base. Sounds at
> first like it make sense, but it leads to a very interesting problem:
> this makes it very difficult to uninstall.
>
> Actually it reminds me of an old arcade game, where a head would pop up
> in one place, and when you go to hit it, it would appear somewhere else,
> ~ etc. If xfig-base and xfig-lib are both installed (which due to their
> inter-dependency they would be) and you first select one to uninstall.
> When you go to choose the other for uninstall, first you must click-thru
> Reinstall (Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall ...) which then triggers the first
> to Keep. You can go back and forth like this for a while until you feel
> like you're playing that game again.
>
> I did find one work-around by accident, although I forgot exactly how I
> did it. It involves an interrupted (un)install of one of the two,
> followed by another run of setup.exe which can then uninstall both.
>
> I'm sure xfig is a nice package, but I don't see a need for anyone to be
> stuck with it. :-)
>
> Anyway, I hope this helps.
>
>
> Yaakov Selkowitz
> Cygwin 'd' maintainer
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