[SOLVED] ttf-oxygen isn't then is then isn't a dependency

Question

I installed oxygen today, which had ttf-oxygen as a dependency. I almost immediately uninstalled oxygen with -Rs, but pacman didn't uninstall ttf-oxygen. I checked, and suddenly ttf-oxygen was marked as a dependency of other packages. Regardless, I then uninstalled ttf-oxygen manually. This worked fine (I think pacman normally complains if you attempt to uninstall required dependencies?). What is going on here?
Some lines omitted:
$ sudo pacman -S oxygen
Packages (3) frameworkintegration-5.6.0-1 ttf-oxygen-1:5.2.0-1 oxygen-5.2.0-1
(1/3) installing ttf-oxygen
$ sudo pacman -Rs oxygen
Packages (2) frameworkintegration-5.6.0-1 oxygen-5.2.0-1
$ pacman -Qi ttf-oxygen
Required By : backintime chromium kdebase-workspace mplayer steam
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
$ sudo pacman -Rs ttf-oxygen
(1/1) removing ttf-oxygen
Last edited by Salkay (2015-01-29 04:20:18)

Answer 1

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think you're right. And that karol was right about this being an opt-depend issue.
Due to some change in pacman or some package's opt-depends recently, my orphan removal alias
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qqtd)
didn't remove something it always had in the past (related to makedeps of an AUR package). I eventually figured out I had to add an extra -t
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qqttd)
to get it to remove one of the packages which was an opt-depend of an otherwise unrelated package I have installed.
Also, the bit of pacman(8) I quoted is probably out of date. It's from archlinux.org, but was last updated in 2013...
Last edited by alphaniner (2015-01-29 05:03:52)