James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/28/05, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Douglas Soares de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi Mark and the gang !
> > >
> > > Em Quarta 28 Setembro 2005 00:18, Mark Rosenstand escreveu:
> > > > 3. Sync option to remove package tarballs for packages not installed on 
> > > > the
> > > >    system.
> > > >
> > > >    With the current cleaning options (-c), trying out fooapp and 
> > > > deciding
> > > > that it sucks will keep /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fooapp-1.0.pkg.tar.gz 
> > > > until a
> > > > new version of fooapp are in the repos. Since fooapp 1.0 sucks, I 
> > > > probably
> > > > won't install it again, and if people tell me that 1.1 kicks ass I'll 
> > > > have
> > > > to do a download anyway.
> > >
> > > I wish this too, since i really have tons of binaries.
> >
> > You can use the attached shell script to do it while it isn't
> > implemented in pacman.
> >
> 
> although AFAIK you can do pacman -Scc to clear *all*, so pacman has
> it, but it must be undocumented.
> 
> what also works is
> 
> rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*
> 
> or at least, that's my preference

That is not the suggested behaviour. The point is to keep package files
for installed packages while removing all other package files. Please
take a look at the previously attached 375 bytes.

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