On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Allan McRae a écrit : >> Firmicus wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Sorry for the halloweenish subject heading ;) >>> >>> I recently got this bug report: >>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16690 >>> >>> It turned out it was not a bug with the perl package at all, but a >>> problem which occurs when the presumably very old and no longer existing >>> package "termcap-compat" is installed on a system. It was originally >>> installed as a dependency for some other, unidentified package. And it >>> turned out to my surprise that even I still had that package installed! >>> >>> That prompts me to ask the following: >>> >>> Are there other such obsolete packages that typically should no longer >>> be installed on a "clean" Arch Linux system? I am not in favour of >>> automating their removal, of course, but it would be useful to collect a >>> list of such things that we could put in the wiki and/or our monthly >>> newsletter. Another example that comes to mind is the obsolete file >>> /etc/udev/udev.rules that I also still had until recently, and which I >>> have removed after Thomas' suggestion. >>> >>> Please submit your suggestions for the forthcoming "Arch Ghostbusting >>> Day" (aka "The Great Halloween Cleanup")! :) >>> >>> >> >> libdownload - replaced by libfetch as pacman download backend >> csup - relaced by using rsync for abs > I removed these long ago, but... > >> Although, all these should be detectable by "pacman -Qqtd" (maybe not >> libdownload as it was part of base). > > the above gave me quite a substantial list! Probably I should run this > more often. Most of what is listed by pacman -Qqtd can indeed be safely > removed. But sometimes the output can be surprising: I've got nautilus > in there, which clearly is not something I would want to remove from my > Gnome desktop :) Well, this is the kind of mess that one can expect on a > system that has been installed nearly four years ago! > > F > Try with "pacman -Qm". That might work better if you don't have a lot of custom/AUR packages installed.
