Remove linux-firmware-meta package?

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I did quote them in my post yesterday but thanks for the one-liner. :+1:

I’m pretty sure not everyone knows how to mark a package as ‘explicitly installed’. I for one didn’t know back in May of last year, so the code will come in handy for all folks coming across this discussion. :smiley:

The thing about removing ‘not needed’ firmware packages is, I don’t know off the top of my head if my mainboard comes with realtek or intel components. That’s why I hesitate to uninstall any firmware files even though I’m pretty sure I’m not running any nvidia devices/chipsets.

As @andreas85 hints at, there’s not really much harm in keeping these firmware files and I don’t feel I’m wasting a lot of space on my 1TB NVME SSD to feel the need to remove some firmware files to save a couple of megabytes. :wink:

EDIT
@soundofthunder Are you sure about the --as-explicity option? I reread my ‘Orphaned packages’ discussion and therefore checked the pacman manpage. There it’s spelled without a dash between ‘as’ and ‘explicit’:

 --asexplicit
     Install packages explicitly; in other words, fake their install
     reason to be explicitly installed. This is useful if you want to
     mark a dependency as explicitly installed so it will not be removed
     by the --recursive remove operation.
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