Talk:Pacman/Rosetta
zypper rm -u does not remove orphans of a package that was removed
zypper rm -u requires an argument, for example a package name. The command can only remove orphans of a package during removal of that package. Once the package is removed, the command will not be equivalent to pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs -.
zypper >= 1.9.2 can list orphans after a package was removed by using --unneeded. See this issue and the manual.
--Markus00000 (talk) 07:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed. It seems
zypper rm -uis equivalent topacman -Ru. On the other side, the commandzypper pa --unneededprints all unneeded packages, but not in easily pipe-able output for a remove command. How about "zypper pa --unneededto list packages, then append them tozypper rm" ? -- Josephgbr (talk) 17:35, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
pacdiff?
I think a row for pacdiff(8) with stuff like rpmconf -a would be helpful, but I'm not sure which would be the best section for it. -- ImNtReal (talk) 14:16, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
- What about adding a new section, titled handling user modification to configuration files? How the other distributions handle that? Regid (talk) 12:32, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Verification and repair
I think paccheck(1) should probably be mentioned here since pacman -Qk does not use checksums like debsums does -- Norgaladir (talk) 17:47, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Commands for removing dependencies and for removing configuration files
Currently the page claims that pacman -Rs is equivalent to apt remove;
however, while pacman -Rs recursively removes packages (which removes dependencies),
apt remove only remove the binaries.
The correct command on Debian would be apt autoremove.
Also, it would be nice to include pacman -Rn (apt purge)
and pacman -Rns (apt autoremove --purge),
as when one removes a package,
one may also want to remove the unneeded configuration files.
I would add them myself,
but I do not know the equivalent on the other distros.