[arch-general] pacman -Qdt

[nado at troglodyte.be]

Le dimanche 26 fév 2012 à 21:14:07 (+0000), Andrea Crotti a écrit :
> On 02/26/2012 07:57 PM, rafael ff1 wrote:
> >2012/2/26 Andrea Crotti<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>:
> >>Well I just installed them as dependencies from
> >>yaourt -S python2-tinkerer
> >>and if they are installed as dependencies of something which is still
> >>installed, they should not
> >>be marked as orphans, right?
> >Run "yaourt -Qi python2-tinkerer" and confirm that python2-sphinx is
> >listed in "Depends On".
> >
> >p.s.: Orphan is a package without maintainer, so it's not related.
> 
> Yes orphan was not the right word sorry, what is the right word then?
> Anyway I realized I'm an idiot, because I
> - installed tinkerer from aur
> - realized that I wanted to contribute so I forked the project and cloned it
> - uninstalled tinkerer from the system (but with my own copy
> installed outside of pacman)
> 
> So pacman -Qdt was perfectly right :)
> Only one note, now I tried to just reinstall python2-sphinx, and in
> my opinion if I install it manually
> the "Install reason" should change to "Explicitly installed",
> doesn't it make sense?
> 
> I can still use pacman -D sure, but in theory if I explicitly
> install something it's reason should also change..
Sometimes, you need to reinstall a package because its version
is failing, and it’s still a dependancy. Explicit reinstallations
are more often because something’s failing than a real explicit
installation. My opinion.

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