[arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff

[Bruno Pagani]

Le 18/02/2017 à 10:03, Bardur Arantsson a écrit :

> On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote:
>> I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this)
> [--snip--]
>> Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages
>> disappearance and uninstalled them?
> Nah, I don't think so unless there's something special about these
> packages in particular, this is just the way pacman works AFAIUI.... but
> now that you mention it, it might a good idea to have pacman mention
> orphaned packages like e.g. 'apt' does. (OTOH, maybe it would be too
> costly to do so every time it's run. Of course one could always set up a
> monthly cron job to remind about packages that are orphaned.)
>
> Regards,

Well, Arch users are supposed to run pacman -Qdt(t) regularly and remove
the old cruft.

However, I too agree that pacman could warn when a package is now
orphaned or optdep only. Pacaur does this for AUR operations par exemple
(see https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/issues/623).

Regards,
Bruno

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