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asio

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[Solved] Small question about paccache in pacman's wiki page

Hi all,

When I was reading the wiki for pacman I found this section for paccache timer in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … kage_cache

Enable and start paccache.timer to discard unused packages weekly. You can configure the arguments for the service in /etc/conf.d/pacman-contrib, e.g with PACCACHE_ARGS='-k1' or PACCACHE_ARGS='-uk0' for the two examples below.

Should the args in /etc/conf.d/pacman-contrib include the prefix "r" operation for removal? in the example below it has r but in the this quote it doesn't. am I missing something here?

Thank you

Last edited by asio (2026-04-19 19:40:31)

just4arch

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Re: [Solved] Small question about paccache in pacman's wiki page

# systemctl cat paccache.service | grep -B1 ExecStart
EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/pacman-contrib
ExecStart=/usr/bin/paccache -r $PACCACHE_ARGS

It's already there, no need to include it.

asio

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Re: [Solved] Small question about paccache in pacman's wiki page

# systemctl cat paccache.service | grep -B1 ExecStart
EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/pacman-contrib
ExecStart=/usr/bin/paccache -r $PACCACHE_ARGS

It's already there, no need to include it.

Thank you

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Re: [Solved] Small question about paccache in pacman's wiki page

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
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asio

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Re: [Solved] Small question about paccache in pacman's wiki page

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

Done