asked 2014-12-17 08:45:20 +0300
Toying around with apps from openrepos pulls in different packages as dependencies. When uninstalling an app only the app and not the orphaned dependencies are removed.
Is there a way to get rid of dangling orphaned dependencies?
answered 2016-12-12 16:04:57 +0300
You can do it the manual way by listing all packages that were installed as dependency and then removing each one by hand:
First, list the packages, that were recently installed with:
rpm -qa --last | head
This lists the last 10 packages, which may include those that are installed when you enable developer mode. In this case, just omit "| head", so the command ist: rpm -qa --last
Now, you should (hopefully) find all packages that were installed at the same time with the package you want to remove. Remove them with
pkcon remove <packages (without version number)>
answered 2014-12-18 10:52:33 +0300
Following magullos hint I created following script, that prints all installed packages with their corresponding repository (zypper has to be installed).
#! /bin/sh
pkcon get-packages \
| awk '/^Install/ { print $2 }' \
| while read PACKAGE; do
REPO=`zypper wp "$PACKAGE" \
| awk 'BEGIN{FS="|"} /^i/{print $6}'`
printf '%s\t%s\n' "$PACKAGE" "$REPO"
done
Filtering further you can at least get all packages installed from openrepos:
sh script.sh | awk '$2 ~ "^openrepos" {print $0}'
answered 2014-12-17 10:44:23 +0300
I think is not so easy, I've already asked something similar in the past, but could not get a real answer. Here's my suggestion: - install zypper, it's the only way you can get info on packages origin (pkcon doesn't provide this info) (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1430997&postcount=4) - with a full list of installed packages, you could do something like (never tried):
pkcon get-packages | grep ^Installed | zypper what-provides
It should show installed packages and their info. You should be able to remove unwanted packages from here.
Asked: 2014-12-17 08:45:20 +0300
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Last updated: Dec 12 '16
The question is: is it safe? I mean.. An OS that uses dependencies for apps to work, maybe have commond dependencies. The solution for safety (but not for space) is MacOS
palikao ( 2016-12-13 11:16:46 +0300 )edit