FS#58379 - pacman -Rs does not remove unrequired optional dependencies

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Reeto Chatterjee (ratorx) - Saturday, 28 April 2018, 14:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.0.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
pacman -Rs does not install unrequired optional dependencies when uninstalling a package. The optional package becomes an orphan and is removed when subsequently running pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq) afterwards.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a package which has optional dependencies and at least one of these dependencies (which is unrequired by another package)
2. Run pacman -Rs package

As a concrete example, neofetch can be installed with the dependency xorg-xrandr. When uninstalling neofetch with pacman -Rs, xorg-xrandr is not added to the uninstall list.
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Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 29 April 2018, 03:25 GMT
Currently we do very little optdepends handling at all. This could be seen as useful for general improvements along the lines of FS#11337.

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