On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Not really... > > The problem is that pacman does not clean up packages installed as a > dependency for a package that are no longer needed due to an update which > removed that dep. > And by the way, we cannot be 100% sure that the 'no longer needed dependency' is not useful in itself. A package foo might have been installed as a dep for package bar, but it can also have some other purposes, unknown to pacman. I don't know if this is just a theoretical problem that has no practical value. But well.. pacman -Qtd exists for a reason..
