Le 18/02/2017 à 10:03, Bardur Arantsson a écrit :
I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) [--snip--] Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages disappearance and uninstalled them? Nah, I don't think so unless there's something special about these
On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: packages in particular, this is just the way pacman works AFAIUI.... but now that you mention it, it might a good idea to have pacman mention orphaned packages like e.g. 'apt' does. (OTOH, maybe it would be too costly to do so every time it's run. Of course one could always set up a monthly cron job to remind about packages that are orphaned.)
Regards,
Well, Arch users are supposed to run pacman -Qdt(t) regularly and remove the old cruft. However, I too agree that pacman could warn when a package is now orphaned or optdep only. Pacaur does this for AUR operations par exemple (see https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/issues/623). Regards, Bruno