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

[Ty John (sand_man)]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:17 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 

I think that is the main reason right there. I just checked the orphans
on this machine.

bzr 2.1.0-2
git 1.7.0.2-1
lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.22-1
lib32-libstdc++5 3.3.6-3
mercurial 1.5-1
rpcbind 0.2.0-1
rpmextract 1.0-3
subversion 1.6.9-2
xulrunner 1.9.2-4
zip 3.0-1

All look like makedepends to me ;)
But of course none of them I would want to remove because they will
just be pulled in again next time I go to build something with makepkg.