On 2024-03-04, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote at 08:30 this Saturday (GMT):
>> On 2024-02-29, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote at 00:50 this Thursday (GMT):
>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 04:15:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2024-02-28, Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Checking for file containing zephyr I note I have some
>>>>>> libraries. Apparently it got installed when I installed Pidgin a while ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> That makes a lot more sense, I think I used to use Pidgin a lot. Guess I
>>>>> forgot to clean up unneeded packages after uninstall?
>>>>
>>>> The package manager should take care of that. It removes (or should)
>>>> packages no longer needed by other apps.
>>>
>>> Pacman/yay is a bit weird on removing dependecies. You have to add -s to
>>> the command to uninstall unneeded packages, which I didn't know about at
>>> that time.
>>> And the "list unneeded packages" command is I believe -Qdt
>>> [snip]
>>
>> Indeed and sudo pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq) removes them :-)
>
> What does the -n in the first part do?
> Also, check the other reply for why I'm kinda concerned about
> mass removing those.
Pacman saves important configuration files when removing certain
applications and names them with the extension: .pacsave. To prevent
the creation of these backup files use the -n option

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman

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Simon

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