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Peterix

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Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 30

cpio: safe to remove

While updating, I got this message:

Packages that were installed as dependencies but are no longer required by any installed package:
cpio

Is it safe to remove that?

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: cpio: safe to remove

While it's probably not strictly required, it's a part of the base group. So it might happen that something depends on it, just the dependency is not recorded. I would not recommend uninstalling anything in base, unless you know what you're doing.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: cpio: safe to remove

It probably should be a dependency of mkinitcpio, though I'm not really sure...

Peterix

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Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 30

Re: cpio: safe to remove

I ran the update again and it didn't say that anymore... weird. Must have been some kind of glitch.

Anyway, thanks

Last edited by Peterix (2008-06-19 23:53:27)