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Bluish9992

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Registered: 2022-12-14

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how to safely and cleanly remove a package that's included in a bundle

hello every one noob here,

i installed xfce4-goodies, but i sure i don't need alot of what was included, can safely and cleanly uninstall one of them while keeping everything else? I did a `pacman -Sg xfce4-goodies` to list everything in that bundle and i don't need like xfce4-dict or ristretto or mouspad you know,

i hope my question made sense. i don't want to uninstall everything until i'm absolutely sure you know, any input will be much appreciated

Last edited by Bluish9992 (2023-02-13 09:16:08)

Scimmia

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Re: how to safely and cleanly remove a package that's included in a bundle

Installing a group with pacman is the same as installing each package individually. All you have to do is remove the packages you want the same way you would remove any package.

Bluish9992

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Re: how to safely and cleanly remove a package that's included in a bundle

I see ty, i usually just -Rcns because everyone seems to be doing that. but i wasn't sure if that would delete the whole bundle ty for clarifying

Trilby

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Re: how to safely and cleanly remove a package that's included in a bundle

I would not use the c and s flags together with an -R operation.  I'm not even sure in which order pacman processes these and whether or not it ... for a lack of better phrasing, recursively applies recursion.  By one reading of those flags' operation, any use of -Rcs could be expected to remove every single package from your system (if it goes back and forth in gathering every package X depends on, then every package that depends on all of those, then every package that all of those depend on, etc).

In reality I don't know that I've ever used the -c flag with an -R operation - and if I were to do so, it'd have to be for very particular circumstances.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-02-13 14:13:54)

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Bluish9992

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Re: how to safely and cleanly remove a package that's included in a bundle

that all i've been doing, and no problems so far