Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
Just -Rcs and look twice at the removal. It does catch the whole tree
of explicit, asdeps of the packages passed as argument, as well as
packages depeding on either, but look twice on the list of packages
you'd like to have removed.
Thanks. Tried a dummy run to see what would be removed. And got this....
[fang@altair ~]$ sudo pacman -Rcs ibfonts-meta-base
ibfonts-meta-extended-lt lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate
[sudo] password for fang:
checking dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be removed after its
lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-pango will be removed after its
lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate dependency
Packages (75) ibfonts-meta-extended-1-20 lib32-acl-2.2.52-2
lib32-attr-2.4.47-1 lib32-bzip2-1.0.6-2
lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate-1.14.6-2 lib32-elfutils-0.167-1
lib32-expat-2.2.0-1
lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate-2.11.95-1
lib32-gdk-pixbuf2-2.34.0-1 lib32-glib2-2.48.1-1 lib32-harfbuzz-1.3.1-1
lib32-icu-57.1-1 lib32-libcap-2.25-1 lib32-libcroco-0.6.11-1
lib32-libdatrie-0.2.10-1
lib32-libdbus-1.10.10-3 lib32-libdrm-2.4.70-1
lib32-libffi-3.2.1-1 lib32-libgcrypt-1.7.3-1 lib32-libgpg-error-1.24-1
lib32-libidn-1.33-1 lib32-libjpeg-turbo-1.5.0-1 lib32-libpciaccess-0.13.4-1
lib32-libpng-1.6.24-1 lib32-librsvg-2.40.16-1
lib32-libthai-0.1.24-1 lib32-libtiff-4.0.6-2 lib32-libtxc_dxtn-1.0.1-5
lib32-libx11-1.6.3-1 lib32-libxau-1.0.8-1 lib32-libxcb-1.12-2
lib32-libxdamage-1.1.4-2
lib32-libxdmcp-1.1.2-1 lib32-libxext-1.3.3-1
lib32-libxfixes-5.0.2-1 lib32-libxft-2.3.2-1 lib32-libxml2-2.9.3-1
lib32-libxrender-0.9.9-1 lib32-libxshmfence-1.2-1 lib32-libxxf86vm-1.1.4-1
lib32-llvm-libs-3.8.1-1 lib32-mesa-12.0.3-1
lib32-mesa-libgl-12.0.3-1 lib32-ncurses-6.0-2 lib32-pango-1.40.1-1
lib32-pcre-8.39-1 lib32-pixman-0.34.0-1 lib32-readline-6.3.008-2
lib32-systemd-231-1
lib32-wayland-1.11.0-1 lib32-xz-5.2.2-1
lib32-zlib-1.2.8-1 otf-oswald-ib-3.0-8 otf-quintessential-ib-1.000-6
otf-tex-gyre-ib-2.005-8 t1-cursor-ib-1.0.4-2 ttf-caladea-ib-20140817-1
ttf-cantoraone-ib-1.001-7
ttf-carlito-ib-20140820-1 ttf-courier-prime-ib-1.203-7
ttf-ddc-uchen-ib-1.000-7 ttf-gelasio-ib-1.00-7
ttf-heuristica-ib-1.0.2-4 ttf-lohit-punjabi-ib-2.5.3-7
ttf-merriweather-ib-1.584-1
ttf-merriweather-sans-ib-1.006-1
ttf-noto-fonts-cjk-ib-1.004-2 ttf-noto-fonts-ib-20150929-2
ttf-noto-fonts-nonlatin-ib-20150929-2 ttf-opensans-ib-1.10-2
ttf-signika-family-ib-1.0001-8 ttf-symbola-ib-8.00-2
ibfonts-meta-base-1-7 ibfonts-meta-extended-lt-1-17
lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate-2.6.3-3
Total Removed Size: 285.94 MiB
Anyway, there might be stuff in there you'd like to have but could
feed a different providers, so that might be a thing you'd want to
look up in the wiki on how to do. Or I would, since I'm the one not
knowing how to do it.
I guess if I try this, I'll need to start in single mode and run it as
root - I doubt X will run with all those packages removed. I also guess
I'd better make a list of the stuff that is being pulled so I can
reinstall the standard package.
:) I may be reinstalling shortly - not at all sure that I can rebuild
things after the change....
Paul.
