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#1 2006-08-17 07:36:35
- Mandor
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Question about Pacman
Hi all,
I have a question about pacman. Is there a way to easily remove a complete desktop environmet (KDE, XFCE etc) or generally any meta package along with the dependancies taht it has installed and are not used by anything else with pacman. reading the manpage I can only think out of "pacman -Rc sth", where sth is some very core package (qt for KDE for example), but it may still skip some of the dependancies of the original meta pckage. Are the installed metapackages actually tracked in some way.
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#2 2006-08-17 07:54:46
- Sigi
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Re: Question about Pacman
Doesn't "pacman -Rc kde" remove the whole KDE group?
Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch. 
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#3 2006-08-17 08:13:27
- Mandor
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Re: Question about Pacman
Doesn't "pacman -Rc kde" remove the whole KDE group?
From my experience -no. Actually "pacman -Qs kde" does not find a package called "kde" on my system at all. Maybe I am missing something?
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#4 2006-08-17 10:48:20
- postlogic
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Re: Question about Pacman
Try pacman -Rc kdebase. Most KDE apps are depending on it, afaik.
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#5 2006-08-17 11:20:30
- Mandor
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Re: Question about Pacman
I did. And also pacman -Rc qt. But my question was more general.
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#6 2006-08-17 11:24:33
- idjut
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Re: Question about Pacman
I removed the whole of xfce4 yesterday with this
pacman -Rs xfce4
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#7 2006-08-17 11:54:41
- Mandor
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Re: Question about Pacman
And no additional packages, installed as dependancies left? Because pacman -Rs kde certainly leaves packages.
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#8 2006-08-17 12:56:56
- sebcactus
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Re: Question about Pacman
What about pacman -Rcs kde ?
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#9 2006-08-17 13:39:53
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Re: Question about Pacman
That will indeed work. It may take a while though, depending on your filesystem.
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#10 2006-08-17 15:35:38
- Mandor
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Re: Question about Pacman
OK, thanks. I thought I miss some features of pacman, or that there are other tools. I'm coming from debian world, there aptitude deos that and if you make sure it does not install optional dependancies, it's really nice.
My filesystem is reiserfs3. And my comp is actually not at the low end.
I am generally happy with Arch, but I want some time to explore before sharing my happiness
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