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Shirakawasuna

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Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 94

Aurbuild orphans created when removing packages

Sorry if this is a fixed problem, but I found a slight annoyance in aurbulid's dependency resolving.  When I install a package with aurbuild -s <package>, it works conveniently well, but every dependency resolved and installed with pacman is explicitly installed and so will not be removed when I later decide I don't want it and do pacman -Rcs <package>.  This results, of course, in a bunch of dependencies which will show up, along with a number of important system packages and wanted packages, with pacman -Qe.   The only way I've found to conveniently even know which packages have been orphaned is to write them down during the aurbuild install dialogs, which is a tad incomplete as I can't figure out which dependencies were needed in the past.  Any help for figuring out how to make this easier or whether or not I should add in a request to aurbuild would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Nick

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Aurbuild orphans created when removing packages

pacman 3 will deal with orphans as it should. at least thats what ppl say. havent tested it yet. wait for a few days for it to reach currentif u dont use testing

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Shirakawasuna

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Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 94

Re: Aurbuild orphans created when removing packages

well, yaourt does it someone right, so that pacman -Rs <package> will remove the dependencies, but somehow whether or not I use aurbuild or yaourt doing -R or -Rs on one of the dependencies doesn't show a warning as it does for direct pacman-installed dependencies.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Aurbuild orphans created when removing packages

at line 732 replace

cmd = ['pacman', '-S', '--noconfirm']

with

cmd = ['pacman', '-D']

that should take care of --syncdeps but not --builddeps as that switch only works for db'd packages. The fix for the latter would be fugly and I don't have alot of time to try it. Basically the Reason: field in the desc file should have the lines "explicitly installed" replaced with "installed as a dependency for another package" or something along those lines. If any feels they can write a patch for it I'll gladly implement it.