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antergos-kde-meta (Dependecy Hell) #255

Closed t14462 closed 6 years ago

t14462 commented 6 years ago

I want to remove Transmission and VLC (because I have Tixati and SMPlayer) without removing entire system.

  1. CORE-components (mesa, Qt, systemd) from *-meta package must be installed as DEPENDENCIES
  2. User's software (Transmission, VLC etc) must be installed as POST-INSTALL script, not as dependencies.
lots0logs commented 6 years ago

You can simply remove the meta package without removing any other packages that you wish to keep.

t14462 commented 6 years ago

Thanx, Cpt. but it works "so simply" only in Pamac (which require working X11/Wayland session).

After this simple operation do something like that: yaourt -Qdt — and you have ruined system.

Dependencies != Post-Install.

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean. Removing a meta package does not remove the packages it depends on.

karasu commented 6 years ago

@lots0logs if you remove "orphans" with pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq) all packages that were installed because of antergos-blahblalbah-meta will be removed as well. That's the problem with removing the meta package.

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

Well yes, of course..but removing orphans is not a requirement. Plus if one wants to do it anyway they just need to mark the packages as explicitly installed before doing so. I know its possible but I don't know off the top of my head the necessary command(s) to do it. TBH, I don't think this is something to worry about. Its an edge case that most users will never encounter.

karasu commented 6 years ago

Yes, I just was trying to explain what I think @t14462 meant. I agree with you.

nivaca commented 6 years ago

I understand what t14462 is concerned with. What I do is simply sudo pacman -Rdd transmission-qt, which means: remove package and don't worry about dependencies (in this case antergos-kde-meta).