Dry run with pacman package manager

Micro logs #1: Dry run with pacman package manager

Source : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman
pacman : Package manager for Arch Linux

-p flag can be used with pacman to dry run commands — that is, see what your command is going to do before it actually does anything.

Might not work with certain flag combinations like -n, and it will simply throw an error.

Optional explanation with simple examples.
pacman -Rs : To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package.

1. Normal Behavior

Pacman -Rs command usage

2. -p works and shows in a list format the final packages which will be removed

pacman with -p flag and works well

3. -p doesn’t work when used with -n flag

pacman command with -p flag and works well

Source (my blog website): https://blog.insanelogs.xyz/posts/micro-logs-1-dry-run-with-pacman-package-manager/

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