Re: js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 18 May 2019 14:59:05 +0200

On 17-05-19 18:23:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
 Further checking whether any of the old packages are required shows 
 they are
not, e.g.

$ pacman -Qdt
...
js 24.2.0-4
js17 17.0.0-4
js52 52.9.0-2
...

 So is this just one of those circumstances where you have to manually check
if packages are no longer needed by the system and uninstall manually? It's
not a big deal, but more a curiosity to understand when this type thing can
occur in the normal process of just calling pacman -Syu.
Yes, pacman doesn't autoremove packages. It can be frustrating at times 
when a package can be removed due to a not so direct replacement. Here 
js52 does not replace js17 so I don't see how it can be removed.

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Jagan
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