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tsangpo

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Registered: 2007-02-25

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A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Hi,
you don't even image how happy would I(and probably all the users of Arch) be If PACMAN had
autoremove option like Debian's apt which removes all the packages that are just "lying around"
and are not required by other packages. This would be a great help for those who like to
experiment with new packages, and often have a mess on their HDs

Greetings,
Łukasz Klepacki <Poland>

iphitus

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

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however, this most probably won't be added, as it's already included.

pacman -Qe gives a list of orphans, and you can just pass that list to pacman -Rc to remove.

Note that pacman3 has a fixed pacman -Qe

James

-- fixed Qo to Qe, oops.

Last edited by iphitus (2007-02-25 12:02:38)

tsangpo

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Well thanks for the fast reply. I must start reading manuals again
Those all fancy distributions have made me a lazy guy

billy

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

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however, this most probably won't be added, as it's already included.

pacman -Qo gives a list of orphans, and you can just pass that list to pacman -Rc to remove.

Note that pacman3 has a fixed pacman -Qo.

James

Isn't pacman -Qe for listing orphans?

Pajaro

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

billy, yes

iphitus

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

my bad, post edited for future reference.

billy

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

will pacman3 have an option to list orphans that were installed as a dependency and are not required any more? because pacman -Qe lists only the packages which were explicitly installed.
And i think tsangpo was asking for this option, because if he would pass pacman -Qe output to pacman -Rc he would delete packages that he explicitly installed.

Last edited by billy (2007-02-25 12:17:13)

iphitus

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Yes, pacman3 has a 'fixed' orphan list billy.

tsangpo

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Where to get pacman3 from ?

stonecrest

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Where to get pacman3 from ?

A public testing package for pacman3 should be available soon. Otherwise browse around, the pacman source code is in cvs.

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chaosgeisterchen

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

If you are intending to remove orphan packages pre-pacman3, you may consider reading this thread.

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-02-25 15:55:39)

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tsangpo

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

Thanks :-)

phrakture

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Re: A small sugestion, pacman deveolpers team please read this post

For the record, an "auto-remove" function is mostly against arch philosophy.  Doing things automatically that should be controlled (i.e. removing packages) is generally a bad idea

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