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authorNagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>2007-11-18 18:45:46 +0100
committerChantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>2008-02-06 08:46:15 +0100
commite63366ae5e701d8e9ae33144f68e8786b092a468 (patch)
tree4b258502587555e3973486140a7a441ea54065fc /doc
parente81dec9b8c65f7c882f5f447cdc117783259f4a4 (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>
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@@ -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]]
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