Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Eduardo Machado via arch-general
2018-02-10 1:55 GMT-02:00 Doug Newgard via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>: > Not gremlins, just an old package that never got cleaned out. Pacman > doesn't do > this automatically. > Sorry to hijack this trhead, but so that pacman does not clean automagically this kind of packages. W

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 14 February 2018 at 19:35, Eduardo Machado via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > 2018-02-10 1:55 GMT-02:00 Doug Newgard via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > > Not gremlins, just an old package that never got cleaned out. Pacman > > doesn't do > > this automati

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Kyle
Maarten de Vries ALIANDIKA: # ​pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt​) Unfortunately this will break my system. It's trying to remove git for one thing, which is definitely something I need. Not to mention that I installed git explicitly, so pacman definitely shouldn't be removing it. I can see a whole lo

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Wes Barnett
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 03:32:35PM -0500, Kyle wrote: > Maarten de Vries ALIANDIKA: > # ​pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt​) > > Unfortunately this will break my system. It's trying to remove git for one > thing, which is definitely something I need. Not to mention that I installed > git explicitly, so pa

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 14 February 2018 at 21:32, Kyle wrote: > Maarten de Vries ALIANDIKA: > # ​pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt​) > > Unfortunately this will break my system. It's trying to remove git for one > thing, which is definitely something I need. Not to mention that I > installed git explicitly, so pacman defini

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Tinu Weber
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 15:32:35 -0500, Kyle wrote: > I can see a > whole lot of other explicitly installed packages as well as packages that > are installed as build dependencies that would also be removed using this > method, which is unacceptable at least on my system. If you don't want package

[arch-general] Why does Arch still use the GTK2 version of xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin?

2018-02-14 Thread DEVIN GRANT via arch-general
Hello, I apologize if this is not the appropriate place for starting such a discussion, but I felt I needed to voice my opinion. I think the GTK3 build of the Whisker Menu plugin is very stable and find it very odd that Arch still uses the antiquated GTK2 build of the plugin. The GTK3 build will

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Eduardo Machado via arch-general
Thanks for all your thoughts. it will help me try something to better maintain my boxes.