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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Remove unused dependencies

Is it possible to remove all the dependencies on my machine that are no longer needed?

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Misfit138

Misfit Emeritus

From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,167

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Re: Remove unused dependencies

pacman -Qdt

Will list all orphans.

pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)

will remove them all.

But, think, and read the manual beforehand.

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Raccoon1400

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Remove unused dependencies

Here's what it gives. Some of them I should definitely keep, like zip and unrar.
I thought this list would be way bigger.

libsexy? WTF?

[root@duncan-arch duncan]# pacman -Qdt
a2ps 4.13c-1
agg 2.5-2
archlinux-menus 2.1-2
bigreqsproto 1.0.2-1
boost 1.36.0-2
cyrus-sasl 2.1.22-9
dbh 1.0.24-2
ffmpegthumbnailer 1.3.0-1
gtk-doc 1.10-1
hspell 1.0-2
lib32-gtk2 2.12.11-3
lib32-libstdc++5 3.3.6-3
lib32-libxdamage 1.1.1-1
lib32-libxmu 1.0.4-1
lib32-pcre 7.8-1
libdc1394 2.0.1-1
libdca 0.0.5-1
libmpd 0.15.0-1
libsexy 0.1.11-1
mtools 3.9.11-1
opencdk 0.6.6-1
pstoedit 3.45-2
python-elementtree 1.2.6_20050316-1
ttf-dejavu 2.26-1
unrar 3.8.3-1
wxgtk-2.6 2.6.4-2
xalan-java 2.7.1-2
zip 3.0-1
[root@duncan-arch duncan]#

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foutrelis

Developer/TU

From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 618

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Re: Remove unused dependencies

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Other_Usage :: Second quote from the end.

Also, to prevent orphans from piling up in the first place, pass the -s (aka --recursive) switch to pacman when removing packages.