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

[Allan McRae]

On 11/03/10 08:22, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer
> <ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>  wrote:
>> I always use "pacman -Rs".  It's a wrapper script, I normally don't use
>> a bare "pacman", so there's not even neglect at play.
>>
> That's the problem. You want to add -c. -s removes in one direction,
> -c removes in the other.
>

Not really...

The problem is that pacman does not clean up packages installed as a 
dependency for a package that are no longer needed due to an update 
which removed that dep.  Also, using "makepkg -s" leaves makedepends as 
orphans.

Allan