Is there a way to remove packages that are installed as dependencies?

Question

Hi,
I recently tried out GDM, and found that I don't like it. I now wish to remove it, along with all the dependencies that were installed along with it.
However, I cannot find a way to list the dependencies of GDM, so that I can remove those as well.
The pacman manual mentioned --cascade and --recursive , however cascade does not list anything else, and recursive includes WAY too many extra packages, many of which I actually need.
Is there a way to remove the packages that were installed along with GDM, but nothing more and nothing less?
Thanks,
James

Answer 1

magicalChicken wrote:Be very careful with -Rsc, as this could remove many very important packages it used inapropriatly, I would recommend just pacman -Rs gdm, then check for orphaned packages.
+1
I also remove packages with the -Rs switch.  I occasionally check for orphans.  In fact, I wrote an 'orphans' function in in my ~/.bashrc for this purpose.
orphans() {
if [[ ! -n $(pacman -Qdt) ]]; then
echo no orphans to remove
else
sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qdtq)
fi