Clearing up AUR

[sigen]

I’d like to clear up my AUR library.

I apologize for the very basic questions that are about to follow, but I need to ask.

1. If I were to uninstall all AUR packages, could that affect Manjaro’s functionality and Manjaro’s official packages in any way?

2. If an AUR package is

Required By: None

and

Install Reason: Installed as a dependency for another package

Can I assume that in all likelihood it can be removed without affecting anything?

Thank you.

[Aragorn]

@sigen

If I were to uninstall all AUR packages, could that affect Manjaro’s functionality and Manjaro’s official packages in any way?

It shouldn’t, but it might, if a package that used to be in the repositories was moved out to the AUR.

@sigen

1. If an AUR package is

Required By: None

and

Install Reason: Installed as a dependency for another package

Can I assume that in all likelihood it can be removed without affecting anything?

If it was installed as a dependency for another package, then removing it will break that other package, unless it’s an optional dependency.

[maycne.sonahoz]

@maycne.sonahoz

Why do i have AUR packages installed?

Unless installed explicitly, AUR packages may have been installed as dependencies for other packages.

• No package in Manjaro’s repositories have a mandatory dependency with AUR packages. They may have optional dependencies there though, in order to add functionalities.
• An AUR package may require another AUR package.
• Some packages in AUR were formerly in Arch’s repositories – and thus in Manjaro’s.
  Arch maintainers regularly check for packages to drop from their repositories; those packages are then removed from their repositories – and thus later from Manjaro’s – and moved to AUR.
  • Packages dropped to AUR can, usually, be safely removed from your system.

[sigen]

If pacman also says about it:

Optional for: None
Conflicts with: None
Replaces: None

then, is it an orphan and unnecessary?

[linux-aarhus]

To list custom packages using pacman

pacman -Qqem

The result can be piped into a file

sudo pacman -Qqem > pkglist.txt

Feed the list to pacman

sudo pacman -Rns - < pkglist.txt

[sigen]

Thank you!