[arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

Lone_Wolf lonewolf at xs4all.nl
Sun May 19 12:54:21 UTC 2019


On 18-05-2019 01:23, David C. Rankin wrote:
>    So is this just one of those circumstances where you have to manually check
> if packages are no longer needed by the system and uninstall manually? It's
> not a big deal, but more a curiosity to understand when this type thing can
> occur in the normal process of just calling pacman -Syu.
>

It's just a coincidence you noticed it when doing pacman -Syu.

Running pacman -Qm and pacman -Qdt regularly should be part of normal 
system maintenance.


LW


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