Hi! 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? khotkeys 5.27.11-1 …

All of those packages were dropped from the official repos to the AUR. Yes, you can remove them as they’re no longer required by anything.

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been left behind, I imagine I’m not the only one and the same must be happening to other people who could also do some outdated package cleanup. :+1:

Unneeded dependencies can be cleaned up with pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rns -

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 continu…

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…

[image] nikgnomic: To use pamac follow this guide . It’s strange, I usually clean up orphaned packages with Pamac - Installed Packages - Orphaned Packages and none of these appeared in the list. :thinking: [image] Teo: Mark the separate firmwares you need as explicitly installed after tha…

[image] Arrababiski: It’s strange, I usually clean up orphaned packages with Pamac - Installed Packages - Orphaned Packages and none of these appeared in the list. :thinking: As far as I know, packages that are installed during the initial installation are installed explicitly. So they might…

Also see [image] [WARNING] System packages and due diligence Notices Using Pamac The Manjaro package manager - Pamac - is very popular - on various Arch Linux based systems. At the time of writing this 2026-08-04T22:00:00Z (UTC) the pamac-aur buildscript has…

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