Re: [arch-general] A few out of date packages

2019-05-19 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 5/19/19 6:16 PM, Anatol Pomozov via arch-general wrote: ... >> lsof4.91201804044.93.2 20190508399 > > Where did you find lsof version 4.93.2?> > The official website does not mention current version. And the mirror > Arch uses hosts 4.91 only

Re: [arch-general] A few out of date packages

2019-05-19 Thread Anatol Pomozov via arch-general
Hello On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:08 PM Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > > Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping > packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work. > > That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages. I've > selected a

[arch-general] A few out of date packages

2019-05-19 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
Hi - First a thank you for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It can a significant amount of work. That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages. I've selected a few to highlight based on age and my own view of importance (no claim its a good view).

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Lone_Wolf
On 18-05-2019 01:23, David C. Rankin wrote: So is this just one of those circumstances where you have to manually check if packages are no longer needed by the system and uninstall manually? It's not a big deal, but more a curiosity to understand when this type thing can occur in the normal

Re: [arch-general] announce libraries in provides=()

2019-05-19 Thread Michael Lojkovic via arch-general
On Thu, 16 May 2019 16:06:51 +0100 Andy Pieters wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:23 PM mike lojkovic via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Suggesting pacman add some portage style features for dependency > > resolution and packaging? Modifying packages on a local

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread David C. Rankin
On 05/18/2019 04:45 AM, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Yes, this is the standard case of old dependencies becoming unneeded, it > just seems strange to you because all those packages are js*, but if > they have a different name and don’t upgrade over the previous one > that’s for a good reason. Thank you

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi via arch-general
On 17-05-19 18:23:00 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Further checking whether any of the old packages are required shows they are not, e.g. $ pacman -Qdt ... js 24.2.0-4 js17 17.0.0-4 js52 52.9.0-2 ... So is this just one of those circumstances where you have to manually check if packages

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > Is this normal that new versions of packages are just added without > removing the replaced package? Yes, I think so. Checking for orphans is part of the normal process. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Check_for_orphans_and_dropped_packages -- Cheers,

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 18/05/2019 à 01:23, David C. Rankin a écrit : > Is this normal that new versions of packages are just added without removing > the replaced package? Yes, because they are not straight upgrade from previous version and often have incompatibilities so that both packages can be used by