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SenorSnor

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From: Delft, Netherlands

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 48

Remove unneeded packages

I'm new to arch, have a question about pacman. I installed a lot of packages just to check 'm out, and removed quite a lot of them right after However, I did this only with the -R option, not -R -s. So now I have a lot of stuff on my computer that I don't really need: packages that were pulled in by the package that I installed as a dependency, but were not deinstalled when I deinstalled that package.

Is there an option to pacman to remove all packages that were pulled in as a dependency but are not needed by any program any more? I couldn't find it in the manpage ...

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Remove unneeded packages

search the forum for orphan

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SenorSnor

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From: Delft, Netherlands

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 48

Re: Remove unneeded packages

tnx, found thsi script at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … ght=orphan that does it. Think it would be handy to have this as a switch in pacman, though ..