https://github.com/arp242/pkg_clearleaves

Easily remove packages on which no other packages depend
https://github.com/arp242/pkg_clearleaves

archlinux package-management

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Easily remove packages on which no other packages depend

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arp242/pkg_clearleaves
• Owner: arp242
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-10-26T18:42:17.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-17T06:11:36.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-05T08:10:08.152Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: archlinux, package-management
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 42 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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For FreeBSD there's a tool called [`pkg_cutleaves`][1], which is a *very* handy

tool to quickly remove unneeded packages; you get a list of all packages that

can be removed without breaking other packages in EDITOR and you remove the

lines of packages you want removed in your editor. Save, quit, confirm, and the

packages will be removed.

None of the Linux systems that I've worked with (Arch, Ubuntu, CentOS) come with

such a tool, nor have I been able to find one that works as well as

`pkg_cutleaves`.

So here it is!

This only implements the visual mode (as described in the opening paragraph),

and not the interactive mode, as I find that to be much more useful. Note that

the flags are *not* compatible with `pkg_cutleaves`.

It currently only works for Arch Linux (pacman) and Void Linux (xbps), but its

design should make it easier to add other platforms as well. rpm, dpkg, and

FreeBSD were supported in earlier versions, but I added them with little testing

four years ago, and wasn't confident they're correct, so I commented them out

again.

Feel free to test, develop, and open a PR!

[1]: http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves/