[arch-general] defunct packages spooking around

[Xavier]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>> Although, all these should be detectable by "pacman -Qqtd" (maybe not
>> libdownload as it was part of base).
>>
>
> And remember always check "pacman -Qqtd" output before doing a "pacman -Rs
> $(pacman -Qqtd)"....
>
>> pacman -Qqtd
> aufs2
> db4.1
> esound
> evolution-data-server
> farsight2
> gperf
> gtksourceview
> ....
>
>
>> pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqtd)
> checking dependencies...
>
> Remove (27): virtualbox-ose-3.0.8-1  virtualbox-modules-3.0.8-1
>  tcsh-6.17.00-1  sysstat-9.0.5-1  skype-2.1.0.47-1  qt-4.5.3-3
>  silc-toolkit-1.1.9-1  python-numpy-1.3.0-2  intltool-0.41.0-1
>  gtksourceview-1.8.5-2  libgnomeprint-2.18.6-1
>  libgnomecups-0.2.3-4  gperf-3.0.4-1  farsight2-0.0.16-1
>  libnice-0.0.9-1  evolution-data-server-2.28.1-1  libical-0.44-1
>  libgweather-2.28.0-1  libsoup-gnome-2.28.1-1  libsoup-2.28.1-1
>  libproxy-0.2.3-1  esound-0.2.41-1  audiofile-0.2.6-4
>  db4.1-4.1.25-3  aufs2-2.6.31_20090910-1  kernel26-2.6.31.4-1
>  kernel26-firmware-2.6.31-1
>
>
> Hmm... aufs2 pulls in the kernel...   good thing I did not reboot!
>
> Allan
>
>


After a normal install, you should have all base packages explicitly installed.
In fact I have only 2 which were not : kernel26-firmware because it is
new, and perl because I marked it myself as dep, not sure why..
Anyway, who would expect Allan to do a normal install ? :)

LANG=C pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qgq base) | egrep "Name|Reason"
they can all be reinstalled with pacman -S --asexplicit $(pacman -Qgq base)