-----Original Message----- From: Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 16:02:55 +0100 Subject: Re: Deleting packages > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Guillermo Leira <gleira@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I've seen that I've lots of packages that I seem to no longer need. > Would it > > be safe to run > > > > Pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) > > > > Regards, > > > > Guillermo Leira > > Short answer: yes, pacman will ask you if you really want to remove > these packages so check the output before saying 'yes'. > BTW, you sill get 'Pacman: command not found' if you run it with > capital 'P'. > > Please search the forums and understand what 'pacman -Qtdq' does. > You might want to read the pacman manpage on how to change the install > reason. I think that I understand more or less what it does... but I don't understand why there are about eighty unneeded and "installed as dependencies" packages. And I have already removed about thirty. I have run pacman -Qtdq and studied the output. Some packages seems to be part of gnome 2, but most of them I don't know where they came from. I'm not a programmer, so I can't submit code, but it would be nice if pacman would say "Installed as a dependency of: package-name", or something similar. It's just a suggestion. Hummm... I'm seeing some pacman -R options that can be very useful to keep the system clean. Maybe I should have used it, and now I wouldn't have these "orphan" packages in my disk. And the capital "P" is not completely my fault. Outlook takes decisions on its own. :-) Thanks, Guillermo Leira
