Linux-firmware replaces linux-firmware-meta?

[Machion]

Around one year ago it was said:

@discobot

With the linux-firmware-meta package, all of the firmware is now split up into individual packages, which are all installed as dependencies of linux-firmware-meta.

If you wish to uninstall the firmware packages that you don’t need — e.g. linux-firmware-nvidia — including the meta package itself, then be sure to mark the firmware packages you wish to keep as explicitly installed, or else pacman will regard them as orphans, which would be dangerous when cleaning out your real orphans.

Now I see on my system that linux-firmware-meta (20260410) is an orphan and without package source, but there is linux-firmware (20260519) from core.

Is this now the official package again?

[Yochanan]

[Testing Update] 2026-05-26 - Kernels, Thunderbird, Firefox, Pipewire, Gstreamer

Manjaro previously had linux-firmware package overlays to support older kernels. That is no longer necessary, so they were dropped in favor of the original Arch packages. linux-firmware is just a meta package to pull in all the firmware packages, so it can either be installed manually to replace linux-firmware-meta or the latter can be removed. To mark the package(s) you want to keep as explicitly installed, use the Mark as explicitly installed button in Add/Remove Software or via CLI: sudo…