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hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

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explicitly installed packages

How do I list what packages I have that are explicitly installed not as dependencies for other packages?

pacman -Qe doesn't help since it only lists ones that where installed as dependencies.

Last edited by hussam (2007-06-08 00:40:30)

STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

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Re: explicitly installed packages

Pacman3 seems to have a bug regarding this problem. It was removed within pacman3 since it was a "undocumentated hack"

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hussam

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Re: explicitly installed packages

Yes, I got that. Is there perhaps some other script to accomplish that function?

STiAT

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Registered: 2004-12-23

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Re: explicitly installed packages

No, not right now.
See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7193 for a proper description. There also is a chance that we'll get it back into pacman as Dan and Aaron stated.

Yours,
Georg

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: explicitly installed packages

script : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 08#p251008
bug report : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7343

Afaik, pacman -Qe never listed all explictly installed packages.
It used to list orphans, ie package not required by any others.
Then, in pacman 2.9 (I just checked :d), it was restricted to explictly installed packages. I'm not sure why.
But it never displayed all explicitly installed packages, the e wasn't for explicit.

In pacman 3, it now lists packages not required by any others, that were _not_ installed explicitly,
which is much more interesting imo, since it's packages that are generally safe to remove.

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: explicitly installed packages

No, not right now.
See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7193 for a proper description. There also is a chance that we'll get it back into pacman as Dan and Aaron stated.

Yours,
Georg

Isn't that another problem ?

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))