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halogen

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Registered: 2014-06-12

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[solved] Removing orphans

I used to use the method specified in the arch wiki to remove orphaned packaged, e.g. pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)

But it seems something changed as recently it stopped working (tested on 2 different machines). On a freshly installed Arch it wants to remove 964 MiB (mostly xorg and parts of the DE). Any idea why?

Last edited by halogen (2018-08-16 14:30:46)

WorMzy

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Re: [solved] Removing orphans

Presumably either a) you changed the install reason on some packages to "Installed as a dependency", or b) packages which you didn't explicitly install previously were required by another package, but now aren't. Nothing has changed recently with regards to which packages are listed as orphaned.

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