Python-shiboken2 and pyside2 went to AUR? Are needed?

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Hi there!
Today I saw python-shiboken2 and pyside2 went to AUR… and it seems those are packages used by manjaro? by something software.manjaro.org?
Not needed anymore? Can we perform a -Rcns on them? or it will break something?
Best regards!

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Why don’t you try?
-Rns should be sufficient
If you try you’ll be presented with a list of what is going to be removed - and you have to approve it or deny the action.

If they “went to AUR” without replacement in repos, they are not needed, not by something from the repos.

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:: clang requiere opcionalmente llvm: referenced by some clang headers
:: python-matplotlib requiere opcionalmente pyside6: alternative for Qt6{Agg,Cairo} backends

Paquetes (10) llvm-18.1.8-4  pyside2-5.15.13-2  pyside6-6.8.0.2-3  python-jade-application-kit-3.5.7-7  python-manjaro-sdk-1:0.1.1-1
              python-systemd-235-3  shiboken6-6.8.0.2-3  software-center-web-jak-1.0.3-1  web-installer-url-handler-2.3-1  python-shiboken2-5.15.13-2

looking at dependecies/providing stuff…
I see that python-shiboken2 is required by pyside2, that is is required by python-jade-aplication-kit, that is required by software-center-web-jak, that is required by web-installer-url-handler and this packages do “Install software from software.manjaro.org”

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none of those packages are in the Manjaro repo - whatever want’s them isn’t required by the base system, but rather by some AUR package
which itself may not even exist anymore - such as web-installer-url-handler
or other external package :man_shrugging:

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do not use --cascade - it is more safe with

sudo pacman -Rns
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Well… using -Rns it is failing because dependencies… it is telling me all the other stuff needed (to be deinstalled), 1 by 1… at the end I will have the same packages listed

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none of those are in Manjaro repos - and some not even in the AUR anymore :man_shrugging:

Branch compare for Manjaro

https://aur.archlinux.org/

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Thanks for all the replies!

It seems it was old stuff used by manjaro install at some point, will wipe it…

BTW, there is any way to know when I installed my manjaro system?

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There are different options to get creation dates: (of course there are)

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Wow
2019-03-12 04:42:44
\o/

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