Can i safely delete this AUR package/orphan?

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Hello
i got an update for this package qt5-webkit

pacman -Qi qt5-webkit                                                                                                                                    1 ✘ 
Name            : qt5-webkit
Version         : 5.212.0alpha4-18
Description     : Classes for a WebKit2 based implementation and a new QML API
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit
Licenses        : GPL3  LGPL3  FDL  custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : qt5-location  qt5-sensors  qt5-webchannel  libwebp  libxslt  libxcomposite  gst-plugins-base  hyphen  woff2
Optional Deps   : gst-plugins-good: Webm codec support [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 47.30 MiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sat 29 Oct 2022 19:05:34
Install Date    : Mon 14 Nov 2022 20:47:40
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

it’s in the orphans list.
if i remove it, will i be prompted to remove also other packages?i don’t want to end up removing some-thing necessary,
i see many “Depends on” and “optional Deps”.

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As a rule of thumb, you can delete safely any AUR package (at least, if you haven’t replaced a system package with an AUR one)

The other thing you have to watch is the “Required by” field. This tells you what other packages depend or rely in this one. In this case is “None”. So, we can easily assume that you can totally remove this particular package.

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i found a similar topic

i also see it was once part of the repository:

i removed it easily without further prompts,
Thanks.

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