Re: uninstall mingw

Thank you Keith - that was useful for me.
Best Wishes, Peter

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:47, Keith Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18/06/2020 19:27, Peter Williams wrote:
> > I'm still not clear by what you mean by "all MinGW installer". IFAIK
> > this is just the one file: mingw-get.exe.
>
> No, this is not correct.  The installer _is_ mingw-get, but most of its
> run time code, (assuming an installation within C:\MinGW), is found in
> C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get; C:\MinGW\bin\mingw-get.exe is just a stub,
> to launch it, in either its CLI or GUI personality.
>
> > To delete any folder,file or shortcut you do it in the standard way.
> > Right click the appropriate icon and select the "delete" option.
>
> Exactly so.  There is no bespoke "uninstall" tool for mingw-get, because
> quite frankly, none is needed; the development, and maintenance of such
> a tool would be a complete waste of time, and effort.
>
> I'm in complete agreement, that the OP has not adequately specified his,
> (or her), objective: if it's to expunge everything which is associated
> with MinGW, then just delete the entire C:\MinGW directory tree.  OTOH,
> if the intent is to remove just mingw-get, then delete any associated
> desktop or start-menu shortcuts, in addition to:
>
>   - C:\MinGW\bin\mingw-get.exe      (program file)
>   - C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get      (program code directory)
>   - C:\MinGW\var\lib\mingw-get      (working data directory)
>   - C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get    (package download directory)
>
> Of these, only the last could possibly benefit from a bespoke cache
> cleaning tool, (which may be included in some future release of the
> mingw-get package set); in the meantime, manual deletion of stale
> package files from C:\MinGW\var\cache\mingw-get\packages may be beneficial.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Keith.
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