[arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff
I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53003 After more investigation I realized the kactivites was being provided by kactivities4 (which no longer exists). Further investigation showed that I had a bunch of old kde4 packages (some still in repos, some not) installed. I think this is the list:- kdebase-runtime (16.12.2-1) libkscreen4 (1.0.5-2) qjson (0.9.0-1) libkexiv2_4 (15.08.3-2) kdelibs (4.14.29-1) qca-qt4 (2.1.3-1) polkit-qt4 (0.112.0+git20160226-1) phonon-qt4 (4.9.1-1) phonon-qt4-vlc (0.9.0-1) libqzeitgeist (0.8.0-6) libdbusmenu-qt4 (0.9.3+16.04.20160218-1) attica-qt4 (0.4.2-3) Only libkscreen4 and libkexiv2_4 were no longer in repos, and uninstalling both removed the rest. Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages disappearance and uninstalled them? Or should I be keeping an eye on pacman -Qm (I have 137 packages there at this point)?
On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote:
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 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,
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
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Bardur Arantsson
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Bruno Pagani
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Oon-Ee Ng