FS#6273 - pacman -Re for quick removal of all orphans

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 24 January 2007, 20:07 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Saturday, 26 April 2008, 15:26 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Well, I think Summary is clear, but here is detailed desription:
I propose to add new option -e to -R, so pacman -Re should remove all packages listed with -Qe, with confirmation of course (anyway user can do "yes | pacman -Re" to avoid pressing Y each time).
This task depends upon

Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 15:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Saturday, 25 August 2007, 21:15 GMT
I'm sure that's not what you want, but personally, I would do a quick remove of all orphans this way :
pacman -Qe | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs sudo pacman -R

No confirmation, but well that's quicker ;) And you can always reinstall the packages you want after.

Or if you have 100 orphans, and want to remove them all except a few ones :
pacman -Qe | cut -d' ' -f1 | grep -v -E "^pkg1$|^pkg2$|..."
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Monday, 18 February 2008, 10:09 GMT
And if you don't like the unix power of combining tools, you can now do :
sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq) :)

Edit (off topic) : the above command could also solve the request made in the comments of  FS#7208 
You can't list recursively orphans with -Q, but -Rs will list them all and ask you to remove them.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Saturday, 26 April 2008, 15:26 GMT
There has not been much interest in that feature request, no one commented but me.
And in my opinion we don't need another pacman option when we can combine the existing ones just fine.
So I will close it now, but feel free to re-open if you like.

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