tyilo / pacclean

A better `pacman -R $(pacman -Qdtq)`

pacclean

Note: You should probably just install yay and run yay -Yc instead.

Tired of running pacman -R $(pacman -Qdtq) ten times to remove all your unused packages installed just as dependencies? Want a pacman -Qdt that can detect dependency cycles that are not needed?

Then pacclean is for you!

Dependencies

Requires libalpm, Boost.Program_options and a C++ compiler supporting C++17.

Probably only works on Arch Linux, so just install the dependencies with:

pacman -Syu boost g++ make

Building

Just run make and the pacclean binary should appear.

TODO

• Figure out what to do, when a package depends one another package, that more than one installed package provide. Currently we just treat all of those packages as dependencies.