Eric Bélanger a écrit : > 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. > > Hem, I have hundreds of them! But they're almost exclusively auto-generated packages for CPAN/perl stuff. In my case running pacman -Qqm | grep -v perl does the job, which does not, however, reveal any new item to be cleaned away. I am actually hunting for packages that used to be in core or extra and no longer exist, not even in community/AUR, but might still be polluting some Arch installations... Perhaps termcap-compat was an exceptional case after all.
