FS#3242 - pacman wishlist (2/4): Deprecation of -Qe in favour of better alternatives

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Mark Rosenstand (mrose) - Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 00:07 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 11:23 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

a) Query option to list all packages that were installed as dependencies but
are no longer depended upon by any installed package.
Like a global -Rn, but only querying. Removing will probably be to point
revolvers at too many people's feet.

b) Query option to list all explicitly installed packages, whether depended
upon by other packages or not. This will reduce the amount of boringness
associated with cleaning out packages, as you won't have to re-read the
output of -Qe every time you remove a package because it had unwanted
dependencies which were also explicitly installed.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 11:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4130
Comment by Mark Rosenstand (mrose) - Saturday, 01 October 2005, 13:35 GMT
D'oh. In a), of course I meant a global -Rs.
Comment by Mark Rosenstand (mrose) - Saturday, 01 October 2005, 13:41 GMT
I think that a) should actually replace --orphans (-e could get another long name), as this is closer to "expected behaviour" for an option of that name.

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