On 10/04/21 at 08:47pm, Morgan Adamiec wrote:
On 08/09/2021 01:28, Shironeko wrote:
Hi,
When I want to try something out, I often install packages with -- asdeps, and so I can easily uninstall all my changes after I'm done. Which let me to the finding that lots of packages on my systems are actually orphans eventhough they don't show up in -Qdt.
This seems to be happening because of dependency loops, example includes bemenu and bemenu-wayland, xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop- portal-wlr and so on.
I understand that by the letter -Qdt is doing what it's supposed to, but everywhere I look it is suggested as the way to find orphans, which is incorrect. Perhaps there should be another flag, or the existing flag can be changed so this issue is resolved?
An hacky solution I found in the BBS is below, which might be useful for tests.
pacman -Qq | sort -u | comm -23 - <(pacman -Qeq | xargs -I PKG -P $(nproc) pactree -lu PKG | sort -u)
Regards, Shironeko
I thought there was already a bug open on this but I can't seem to find one. It's something I'm aware of and would like to see fixed. Fastest way to see it fixed though is send a patch.
pacreport in pacutils will show unneeded packages even if they're in a dependency cycle.