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wil93

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From: Italy

Registered: 2013-09-15

Posts: 72

[SOLVED] What dependencies are considered "unneeded"?

I noticed there were updates available for some "mariadb"-ish packages installed, so I tried to understand why they were installed in the first place.

libmariadbclient (required by mariadb-clients)
mariadb-clients (required by mariadb)
mariadb (required by akonadi)
akonadi (required by kdepimlibs)
kdepimlibs (required by baloo)
baloo (required by kactivities, nepomuk-core)
kactivities (required by kdebase-runtime)
nepomuk-core (not required) <-- this is strange since the "install reason" is «Installed as a dependency for another package»
kdebase-runtime (required by kdenlive)
kdenlive (not required)

So I thought that by issuing:

# pacman -Rs kdenlive

all these packages would be uninstalled. However, this is the output:

checking dependencies...
:: nmap optionally requires kdebase-runtime: privilege escalation for zenmap
:: xdg-utils optionally requires kdebase-runtime: for KDE support in xdg-open

Packages (5): kactivities-4.13.0-1  kdebase-runtime-4.13.0-3  libssh-0.6.3-1
              oxygen-icons-4.13.0-1  kdenlive-0.9.6-4

Total Removed Size:   74.14 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] 

It sounds strange to me, what am I missing?

Last edited by wil93 (2014-05-01 14:53:32)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: [SOLVED] What dependencies are considered "unneeded"?

Looks right, you aren't telling it to uninstall nepomuk-core, so it's leaving that and it's deps.

wil93

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2013-09-15

Posts: 72

Re: [SOLVED] What dependencies are considered "unneeded"?

Yeah, nepomuk-core seem to be the problem there. Somehow I have it installed as a dependency (maybe as a make dependency of some AUR package?).
In fact, if I issue:

# pacman -Rs nepomuk-core kdenlive

all packages are selected for uninstallation