On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:34:39AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Speaking of removing packages, is there a tool that would tell me if a > package I have installed has been removed? As someone who installs far > too many packages, I will end up with a package installed because > something depends on it, but then that something goes away and I > never find out. > > -- > Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io > > Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. > Michael Jordan >
Not really. The below will give you a list of packages which are not in the repositories and not in the AUR: $ pacman -Qmq | grep -xvFf <(cower -i --format %n $(pacman -Qmq)) ...but there's no distinction between "not in the AUR anymore" and "never was in the AUR to begin with".