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RE: setup feature request
- From: "Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Robert Collins" <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:15:53 -0000
- Subject: RE: setup feature request
> >
> > - what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'?
> >
ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't
know what the difference is for the others ...
(I guess I'm missing something obvious here)
> > - it should be very easy to add 'remove' as well. This will
> finally give us
> > a means to remove cygwin (or just a part of it) easily.
>
> Unfortunately, setup's remove is not an uninstall. That is, the registry
> entries for mount points, and shortcuts in the start menu are not
> removed even if you remove all packages.
>
ok fine. But it does remove the files. That's already something...
> Patches to address this are welcome :].
sure!