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Re: setup 2.888 crashes on --prune-install
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:28:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: setup 2.888 crashes on --prune-install
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- References: <b1po8d9725qhl9p65egb46btmept1ipu9h@4ax.com> <b1po8d9725qhl9p65egb46btmept1ipu9h-e09XROE/p8c@public.gmane.org> <878tbn32oa.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
> Andrew Schulman writes:
> > When I run setup-x86_64.exe or setup-x86.exe with --prune-install as shown
> > below, it crashes. An error dialog pops up saying "setup-x86.exe has
> > stopped working". No other debug information appears on the console - the
> > whole session is shown below.
>
> That option, as I originally implemented it, should actually leave your
> system exactly with those packages requested, without diving into
> dependencies. In other words, that list should be self-contained, like
> you'd get from copying an existing installation from a different
> machine. From what you were saying I guess that you rather want to use
> --delete-orphans.
Thanks. Yes, --delete-orphans is what I wanted.
And sadly I just found out that pdftk is gone :(
Andrew