Le 18/02/2017 à 10:03, Bardur Arantsson a écrit : > On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: >> I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) > [--snip--] >> Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages >> disappearance and uninstalled them? > Nah, I don't think so unless there's something special about these > packages in particular, this is just the way pacman works AFAIUI.... but > now that you mention it, it might a good idea to have pacman mention > orphaned packages like e.g. 'apt' does. (OTOH, maybe it would be too > costly to do so every time it's run. Of course one could always set up a > monthly cron job to remind about packages that are orphaned.) > > Regards, Well, Arch users are supposed to run pacman -Qdt(t) regularly and remove the old cruft. However, I too agree that pacman could warn when a package is now orphaned or optdep only. Pacaur does this for AUR operations par exemple (see https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/issues/623). Regards, Bruno
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