Guillermo Leira wrote:
> 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.
If a package is removed without its dependencies, those dependencies
also lose the pointer to the package that once pulled them in. Note
that this relation is not hardcoded, which makes sense: packages may
depend on others with a lower bound on the version needed, but any
version thereafter will do. Nonetheless storing the "original" package
name+version could be done, maybe in an additional field to avoid the
need of updating the "dep: name+version" field each time a new
version is installed.
> 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.
pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq)
The "s" means (from the man page):
Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies,
provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B)
they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is
recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps
keep a clean system without orphans. If you want to omit condition
(B), pass this option twice.
You can make this even more aggressive by using "pacman -Rcs".
I used
for i in $(pacman -Qtdq); do pacman -Rs $i;done
because there are packages I want to keep. Without the for loop, pacman
will remove the whole bunch, with it I get the confirmer question one by
one.
clemens
