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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

is pacman right about this?

i just did pacman -Qdt and it listed the following...

liblbxutil 1.0.1-1
libxtrap 1.0.0-2
xtrans 1.2.2-1

and the other day, after uninstalling a whole bunch of stuff (kdebase, openbox, etc), pacman said i didn't need xorg-server anymore and did i want to remove it. i said "no". am i correct in thinking this is odd? other than pacman -Syu, is there something i can do to "revitalize" pacman? also, i had been using yaourt, as well.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: is pacman right about this?

There might be problems with xorg-server either because of some quirky circular dependency or because you removed one of the catalyst/nvidia-utils packages, because each of those depends on xorg-server. Of course, you'd never want that package to be removed, and if its listing in -Qtd bothers you, you could reinstall it with -S --asexplicit.
About those other X libraries (I spotted a few that got last rebuilt in 2006), well, I removed them all with -Rncs and so far everything continues to work.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: is pacman right about this?

and the other day, after uninstalling a whole bunch of stuff (kdebase, openbox, etc), pacman said i didn't need xorg-server anymore and did i want to remove it. i said "no". am i correct in thinking this is odd?

it's not that odd, if xorg-server was installed as a dependency to another package, then removing that package and ALL it's dependencies will also grab xorg-server, if it has NO other dependencies.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: is pacman right about this?

I just removed all three of these today due to another thread. My system still works.

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: is pacman right about this?

xorg-server only showed up as a "btw, this is no longer needed" (maybe pacman was making a crack about tiling wm's). i uninstalled the three packages i mentioned earlier and haven't noticed a difference.