Some easy tips to clean up the filesystem?

zephyrus17 · 2008-10-18 05:46:25

I know that

sudo pacman -Qdt

detects all unused dependancies, but how do you remove all of them at once? I've tried using a pipe (|), but that came out unsuccessful. What's the correct way to do it?

Any other tips on speeding up/cleaning the filesystem of junk?

Xyne · 2008-10-18 05:52:08

pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)

zephyrus17 · 2008-10-18 05:53:46

Why not

pacman -Rcs $(pacman -Qdtq

?

Xyne · 2008-10-18 05:58:26

There's no point in cascading that because -Qdt only specifies top-level packages installed as dependencies, so there are no packages that depend on those (which is what -c would remove).

As I understand it, -n prevents the removal from leaving .pacsave junk behind in the database.

zephyrus17 · 2008-10-18 06:00:30

Aye. It does. Thanks.

This is 100% safe, right?

Last edited by zephyrus17 (2008-10-18 06:02:11)

creslin · 2008-10-18 06:46:28

zephyrus17 wrote:

This is 100% safe, right?

The command itself is "safe" in the sense that it will only remove the packages that 'pacman -Qqdt' returns, but only common sense and research can tell you if the packages from your 'pacman -Qqdt' are truly safe to remove.

For example just a few days ago, this was a case where it would clearly not have been safe.

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-18 06:57:25)

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