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I'm correct in thinking that pacman doesn't mark in any way packages installed solely as dependencies, aren't I? That would be a great feature to have added.. apt has it already I think; getting a 'suggestion' to uninstall the dependencies of a package you've just uninstalled if they aren't required by other packages would be immensely helpful.
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pacman -Qe lists all packages that were user installed. so, i suppose that everything not listed by this command is installed as a dependancy.
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As a rule, pacman doesn't suggest anything. However, it(he?) does provide all the necessary flags to handle these kind of options:
$ pacman -Rh
usage: pacman {-R --remove} [options] <package>
options:
-c, --cascade remove packages and all packages that depend on them
-d, --nodeps skip dependency checks
-k, --dbonly only remove database entry, do not remove files
-n, --nosave remove configuration files as well
-s, --recursive remove dependencies also (that won't break packages) <==
--config <path> set an alternate configuration file
--noconfirm do not ask for any confirmation
--noprogressbar do not show a progress bar when downloading files
-v, --verbose be verbose
-r, --root <path> set an alternate installation root
-b, --dbpath <path> set an alternate database location
If you want the automated suggestion, post up a feature request.
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If you want the automated suggestion, post up a feature request.
I think it'd be pretty handy, because you don't necessarily want to use -Rs all the time; granted I and probably most of you use it in the majority of cases, but if you're installing a frontend for something for example, it may require only some of the same libraries/packages, and it would be nice to know the non-overlapping ones without visually comparing dependencies.
Where do I post a feature request?
EDIT: Why the smeg isn't my quote showing properly? Gaargh...
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Feature requests go in the bugtracker.
The quote thing is down to heavy-duty upgrade/maintenance work currently in progress - Have a look in Announcements for the details.
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kk, cheers bud
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