From e63366ae5e701d8e9ae33144f68e8786b092a468 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nagy Gabor Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:45:46 +0100 Subject: 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 --- doc/pacman.8.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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]] ------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2