On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2. pacman -Qm has 2 flaws that i see. For one, it'll also list all your AUR > packages, it'd be nice to maybe just list packages that were installed from > the repos but are no longer there and ignore any manually installed > packages. For two, i was thinking something a bit more obvious to the user > (i've been using Arch for 2 years now and i didn't know about pacman -Qm) > that would display on 'pacman -Syu' that after the packages were installed, > something like: "libpng12 and libjpeg7 are no longer being used by any > packages, would you like to remove them [Y/n]". I'm thinking this would be > good because there could be a lot of clutter on the system if you have to > check for "deprecated" packages manually. > Right, you would have AUR packages too with pacman -Qm. Btw you also have pacman -Qtd for the "no longer used dependencies" i.e. orphans.
