Huge update - 1897 packages - how come?

[linux-aarhus]

@Fabian

Someone told me that it had something to do with a new “glibc” version, apparently everything that uses that got a version bump and was rebuilt. Sounds unnecessary for me, but not sure.

Difficult to have an opinion on - it varies greatly from member to member.

You could get enlightened by running a few commands

pamac list --orphans

And

pamac list --foreign

EDIT

@Fabian

I did install kwin-x11 and plasma-x11-session, but after the reboot, it still started with Wayland, without asking me.

Plasma Wayland comes before Plasma X11 and the filenames change so sddm will list the available sessions in alphabetic order - and since you didn’t change the session selection box - the first session is used - sddm always worked that way.