[aur-general] Removal notifier?
Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I never find out. -- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:34:39AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I never find out.
-- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io
Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
Not really. The below will give you a list of packages which are not in the repositories and not in the AUR: $ pacman -Qmq | grep -xvFf <(cower -i --format %n $(pacman -Qmq)) ...but there's no distinction between "not in the AUR anymore" and "never was in the AUR to begin with".
Em 17/07/2013 12:34, Jonathan Arnold escreveu:
Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I never find out.
I don't think there is a notifier, but I suggest using pkgbrowser[1] for a nice GUI for looking around your installed (and available/non-installed) packages, filtering by category, status, repository.. If not on AUR, you can identify it as well. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbrowser/
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Rafael Ferreira <josephgbr@archlinux.info>wrote:
Em 17/07/2013 12:34, Jonathan Arnold escreveu:
Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a
package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I never find out.
I don't think there is a notifier, but I suggest using pkgbrowser[1] for a nice GUI for looking around your installed (and available/non-installed) packages, filtering by category, status, repository.. If not on AUR, you can identify it as well.
filtering by category, .... If only every package on AUR would have a category! There are nearly 1000 (active maintained) packages without category :(
On 17.07.13 at 11:34, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I never find out.
-- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io
Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
You can use "Notify of new comments" in web UI, then you'll be notified via email if the package has been removed. The obvious downside is that you'll be notified of every comment, so it's certainly not suitable for someone installing many packages (or you can tweak your spam filter).
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Dave Reisner
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Jakub Klinkovský
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Jonathan Arnold
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Rafael Ferreira
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Rob Til Freedmen