How not to end up deleting important stuff while clearing unused (orphan ) packages?

[ishaan2479]

@sloshy

Is it safe to just remove all unused packages using sudo pacman -Scc or using yay -c?

-Scc flag is used to clean up all local caches so no important stuff will be deleted. You can use pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq) to remove dependencies that are no longer needed, because e.g. the package which needed the dependencies was removed.

@sloshy

I see that go and breath2-wallpaper are on there, that is why I feel like this might not go well.

[Stable Update] 2021-12-10 - Kernels, Systemd, LibreOffice, Plasma, Browser, Thunderbird

We deprecated all of our old themes - Breath and Breath2. Our newest one that is a modification of latter - Breath2 2021 - became the only supported theme but got slight updates since August. So all in all: Breath2 2021 is renamed to Breath Breath2 is renamed to Breath Classic and will not receive any updates other than minor to be supported on current Plasma version. Breath is renamed to Breath Legacy and abandoned Updates that new Breath got: Default icon theme is Breeze now since pre…