Broken package selection for a full install

[Daniel F. Dickinson]

Morris Walton wrote:
>>>My renaming the installation root and registry keys as per Igors
>>>suggestion, you have removed all trace of your package selections.
>>
>>Thanks.  I think I figured out what was wrong.  I selected Install on
>>the root of the package tree, then used the view radio buttons (to see
>>what they are for).  I think I reselected Install on the root after
>>that, but I can't swear to it and can't test it at the moment (I'm in
>>middle of a move and project), but in three or four weeks I'll
> 
> probably
> 
>>get a chance to verify if that was the problem.
>>
> 
> [Morris] I don't see how this would be a problem?  Shouldn't "install"
> work?

It *should* but it doesn't always.  The first time I installed Cygwin I 
used 'install' but got missing 'CYGxxx.dll' - type messages on the 
post-install script and attempting to run the default icon (because of 
grep which was missing libpcre, and k?which which was missing 
libkpathsea3).  Doing a reinstall on the root had the same result (I did 
the reinstall after looking at the FAQ since that was the advice for 
missing .dll messages).  I then searched the archives and discovered 
that someone had a similar problem with 'less' with a 'default' install. 
  It seems that sometimes not all dependencies are picked up, which is 
borne out by the fact that there were unselect packages, and manually 
selecting everything made the reinstall work.
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