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[–] 7 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

Good question, I guess I might be using the wrong word when i say "orphan" because I see the arch wiki uses that term differently

Orphans are packages that were installed as a dependency and are no longer required by any package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks

You can remove these manually or if using an aur helper like yay there are flags/settings you can use to delete them after the desired package was installed.

However what I was talking about aur packages that are unmaintained or do not have a maintainer anymore.

I'm researching more at the moment.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    shit, I had 150 orphaned packages

    pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -

    I made an alias for this, but IMO this cleanup should be automatic. The user didn't install it themselves after all.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don't trust that everything that outputs from pacman -Qdtq should be deleted. Like I want to keep vlc.

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