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#1 2008-08-01 17:54:39
- violagirl23
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[SOLVED] Equivalent of Gentoo world file?
Is there any plan to make it so pacman can make a distinction between packages you explicitly installed and packages that were just pulled in as dependencies? Like... Gentoo has a world file that records every program you explicitly install (and you can avoid putting something on the list by using the --oneshot flag), so when I uninstalled it I was able to look at the world file to see all the programs I had ever installed. Now that I have to reinstall Arch I'm discovering I don't have a clue which programs I want back and which are just dependencies and it's just a huge mess... so I could see an advantage to having a similar system. Not overcomplicating pacman, but rather just having a file that records all packages you explicitly installed. Is there a plan for such a thing in the future?
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#2 2008-08-01 18:00:17
- lf
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Re: [SOLVED] Equivalent of Gentoo world file?
Try pacman -Qe
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#3 2008-08-01 18:04:17
- violagirl23
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Re: [SOLVED] Equivalent of Gentoo world file?
Aha! I read the man file but I might have missed that. Searching the forum I only found results for listing ALL packages, not just explicitly installed ones. It seems a little less flexible than the Gentoo system but still works. Thanks.
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