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CyrIng

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[SOLVED] Full System Upgrade : suggest to remove kernel !

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Sorry, it has nothing to see with VirtualBox
It happens at the end of a full system upgrade
Or whenever doing a pacman -Qdt

But this should not been suggested, right ?
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Upgrading to the last vbox dkms ends with the following :

DKMS: install completed.
==> Packages no longer required by any installed package:
    linux

Does it sound correct to you ?

Last edited by CyrIng (2016-03-10 04:17:37)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Full System Upgrade : suggest to remove kernel !

If you never explicitly installed the linux package, then that is correct. If you disagree with it, then change the install reason for the linux package to "explicitly installed" by using pacman's -D flag. See the manpage for details.

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CyrIng

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Re: [SOLVED] Full System Upgrade : suggest to remove kernel !

Indeed, linux has been installed (in 2008)  as a dependency for another package and "Depends On:" coreutils  linux-firmware  kmod  mkinitcpio>=0.7

Querying, for instance, linux-firmware displays that is required by linux

There are 1297 packages installed and I still wonder how one of them does not have any dependency with linux ?

mcmillan

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Re: [SOLVED] Full System Upgrade : suggest to remove kernel !

Since Linux is in the base group it can be assumed to be installed. The main place I see Linux explicitly defined as a dependency is with modules that need specific versions.  You  can see what packages list being dependent on Linux on the package page. Only 16 in the whole repo

CyrIng

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Re: [SOLVED] Full System Upgrade : suggest to remove kernel !

OK, solved with a :

pacman -D linux --asexplicit

Thanks for your answers.