[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[Xavier]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2. pacman -Qm has 2 flaws that i see. For one, it'll also list all your AUR
> packages, it'd be nice to maybe just list packages that were installed from
> the repos but are no longer there and ignore any manually installed
> packages. For two, i was thinking something a bit more obvious to the user
> (i've been using Arch for 2 years now and i didn't know about pacman -Qm)
> that would display on 'pacman -Syu' that after the packages were installed,
> something like: "libpng12 and libjpeg7 are no longer being used by any
> packages, would you like to remove them [Y/n]". I'm thinking this would be
> good because there could be a lot of clutter on the system if you have to
> check for "deprecated" packages manually.
>

Right, you would have AUR packages too with pacman -Qm.
Btw you also have pacman -Qtd for the "no longer used dependencies"
i.e. orphans.