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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?


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#3 2006-08-17 08:13:27

Mandor
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Re: Question about Pacman

Sigi wrote:

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

Gullible Jones
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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 smile


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