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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

package cleanup

Hi there,

I'm wondering if there is an easy way or tool to achieve this: find all the package that nobody depends on (nobody is using) and remove them?

Thanks,

Ekimino

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From: Maldonado, Uruguay

Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 69

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Re: package cleanup

Hello, try to look in the wiki, in the Pacman section in the main page.

# pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq)

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: package cleanup

You may want to do the query option first and save to a file for review. Sometimes in the course of having a system, you may install optional programs and do some configuration that requires these programs. If you remove them automatically without checking to see what they are, you may very well break things that you rely on.

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: package cleanup

Thanks!