Posting here as there doesn’t seem to be an active Arch Linux community.
I noticed while updating my system today that I have a bunch of qemu packages I don’t recall installing. So I took a look at why they were there and found this:
Name : qemu-base
Required By : qemu-desktop
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Name : qemu-desktop
Required By : None
Optional For : qemu-base
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
It seems like qemu-desktop was a dependency for something I later removed and pulled in qemu-base. However, because of the dependency cycle, they aren’t showing up as orphans and has just been hanging around in my system along with 150mb of other dependencies.
Correct?
Posting here as there doesn’t seem to be an active Arch Linux community.
archlinux@lemmy.ml seems active to m
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qemu-desktopis only “optional” forqemu-base. You can safely remove qemu-desktop, pacman won’t nag about optional dependencies.For checking dependencies, I like to use
pactree, it draws nice graphs in the terminal: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#PactreeWhat does
pacman -Qtdqshows?I learned some irritating lessons uninstalling everything from that list a few times. one of these days I’ll go through and set --asdeps so I remember why they’re installed