can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?

Hans-Bernhard Bröker HBBroeker@t-online.de
Mon Feb 13 21:19:00 GMT 2017


Am 13.02.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Leo Lagos:

> I executed setup.exe, tried to do this with just one check (uninstall
> x11-org-server, I think I did), but it only uninstalled that package
> alone!
>
> I expected setup.exe to be smart enough to tell me "if you uninstall
> this X package, these others W, Y, Z,etc., will also be
> uninstalled"... but no...
>
> So, is setup.exe smart enough to do this? Or do I have to know exactly
> which packages to uninstall, one by one??? :(

Got to the "Category" view, find the X11 category, single-click the 
circle-of-arrows icon a couple times until it reads: Uninstall.  You may 
have to blanket-uninstall some other categories, too (KDE, Xfce, GNOME, 
LXDE, ...) for this to work.  GO.



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