Hi Marcel, hi Rasmus :) On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:34:29 +0100, Marcel Röthke wrote:
You can remove all unneeded dependencies with the following command. "pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs -"
Some unneeded packages might be build time dependencies, I don't want to remove and others might be needed for software I installed without a package, even while they once were installed as a dependency, that now isn't needed by a package anymore. It does find 220 packages, one of them is ibus. Some might be unneeded, but others might be needed. I guess I should remove a few packages, if I've got time to check what they are used or not used for, but I don't trust this command. Total Removed Size: 1162.45 MiB / 1024 = 1.14 GiB 1 GiB is much, but doesn't matter on my machine that much. On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:42:06 +0100, Rasmus Liland wrote:
I think you can uninstall ibus safely, unless you use it for e.g. writing simplified chinese, then you would also need e.g. the ibus-sunpinyin from AUR or something similar.
I'm guessing it was installed in the past on your system as a dependency of a AUR package where the AUR packager uses ibus to write his native language.
That's my thought too, because the Arch wiki mentions "You will need at least one input method, corresponding to the language you wish to type." I removed ibus. Restarted the computer ;). Everything still seems to be ok. Someday I have to check 219 packages (Total Removed Size: 1155.87 MiB). Thank you, Ralf