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| author | Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> | 2007-11-18 18:45:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> | 2008-02-06 08:46:15 +0100 |
| commit | e63366ae5e701d8e9ae33144f68e8786b092a468 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b258502587555e3973486140a7a441ea54065fc /doc | |
| parent | e81dec9b8c65f7c882f5f447cdc117783259f4a4 (diff) | |
New remove option : -u / --unneeded (FS#6505).
With --unneeded option 'pacman -R' doesn't stop in case of dependency error;
it removes the needed-dependency targets from the target-list instead. See
also: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-October/009653.html .
The patch also adds a new causingpkg field to pmdepmissing_t which indicates
the to-be-removed package which would cause a dependency break. This is
needed, because miss->depend.name may be a provision. miss->causingpkg will
be useful in -R dependency error messages too.
[Xavier: renamed inducer to causingpkg, removed the _alpm_pkgname_pkg_cmp
helper function as requested by Aaron. This might be added by a further
commit. Other small cleanups, updated manpage and bash completion.]
Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index c17700d7..8a3f675d 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ Remove Options[[RO]] to a backwards '\--sync' operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans. +*-u, \--unneeded*:: + Removes the targets that are not required by any other packages. + This is mostly useful when removing a group without using the '-c' option, + to avoid breaking any dependencies. + Sync Options[[SO]] ------------------ |