On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1@gmail.com> wrote:
2. pacman -Qm has 2 flaws that i see. For one, it'll also list all your AUR packages, it'd be nice to maybe just list packages that were installed from the repos but are no longer there and ignore any manually installed packages. For two, i was thinking something a bit more obvious to the user (i've been using Arch for 2 years now and i didn't know about pacman -Qm) that would display on 'pacman -Syu' that after the packages were installed, something like: "libpng12 and libjpeg7 are no longer being used by any packages, would you like to remove them [Y/n]". I'm thinking this would be good because there could be a lot of clutter on the system if you have to check for "deprecated" packages manually.
Right, you would have AUR packages too with pacman -Qm. Btw you also have pacman -Qtd for the "no longer used dependencies" i.e. orphans.