After all that happened with AUR, I’m looking at my installed external packages and there are some external that I don’t know their origin, neither repository nor AUR and I don’t remember installing them myself. Some seem old. Where did they came from? Can they be removed?
All them can be deleted? So if they’ve been left behind, I imagine I’m not the only one and the same must be happening to other people who could also do some outdated package cleanup.
Manjaro Wiki - System Maintenance - Removing Orphans
As packages are added, built and removed it is not uncommon to have unneeded dependencies, also called orphans, building up over time. While orphans are not harmful, they take up space on the disk and consume network bandwidth as they are continually updated. Luckily, there are a couple of easy ways to view and remove orphans.
Mark the separate firmwares you need as explicitly installed after that.
And if you want to mount partitions without typing password in the file manager check the polkit rules in the hotfixes. It is of course bad for security to mount without sudo…
It’s strange, I usually clean up orphaned packages with Pamac - Installed Packages - Orphaned Packages and none of these appeared in the list.
I wasn’t aware of this, but when I checked Pamac after uninstalling the not needed packages, I saw that ten linux-firmware packages were listed as orphaned. I’ve now marked them as explicitly installed. Thanks.
As far as I know, packages that are installed during the initial installation are installed explicitly.
So they might have been installed when you installed Manjaro and dropped to AUR later on but kept their explicit status.
