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.
