Archlinux Cleanup

2020-12-17

If one uses a system for a while, it tends to clutter.

Half-way into spaghetti-piping this , I started reading more of pacman's man page. Things are way easier to achieve than this:

toe@detritus2 ~ % pacman -Qq | pacman -Qi - | grep -E "^(Name|Install (Date|Reason)) | sed ..."

List unneeded packages (names only, dependency packages, unneeded):

toe@detritus2 ~ % pacman -Qqdt
aalib
abcde
acl
(...)

Take that output, feed it into remove command, 10 packages at a time for better overview:

toe@detritus2 ~ % pacman -Qqdt | head | sudo pacman -Ru -
[sudo] password for toe:
checking dependencies...

Package (10)  Old Version           Net Change

akonadi       20.12.0-1              -2.79 MiB
c-ares        1.17.1-1               -0.43 MiB
celt0.5.1     0.5.1.3-5              -0.13 MiB
ceph-libs     15.2.6-4              -65.81 MiB
gamin         0.1.10-9               -0.17 MiB
gconf         3.2.6+11+g07808097-5   -6.59 MiB
gegl02        0.2.0-8                -2.52 MiB
geoip         1.6.12-2               -0.28 MiB
glew          2.2.0-2                -2.75 MiB
glusterfs     1:8.2-2               -18.62 MiB

Total Removed Size:  100.09 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]