> > Hi, > > recently bin86 was removed from base-devel group but > the unique way I > > know to see this change is manually reading the pkg > changelog in the > > arch site. The problem is simple, how to detect this > change in > > pacman? For example, after a gnome upgrade, if a new > package is added > > to gnome group I can do: pacman -S --needed gnome to > install the > > missing package. But if a package is removed? How can > I remove this > > package that doesn't belong to a group anymore? I hope > you understand > > the question. Why not add metapackages (as for kde) > for base, > > base-devel, gnome and gnome-extra that doesn't have > this problem? > > > > > > > > Even if it was removed from the group, it could still be > needed on your > system. > > pacman -Qdt might be more useful than checking if package x > is still > in group y. > Yeah, obviously, but it's not this case. The point is that there isn't a way to detect packages that are removed from a group so you can easily remove it; or at least I don't know a method to do it.
