Alien packages should be removed after an update, not before. This is because some system packages may be listed as alien not because they are actually foreign, but because they have been renamed or replaced in the update. Premature removal of those temporarily “alien/foreign” packages before the system update can install their replacements may result in dependency issues.
So, you should update your system packages first (sudo pacman -Syu or pamac update --no-aur), and then check for foreign/alien packages.
libakonadi is now provided by the akonadi package:
pamac info akonadi | grep -E "Name|Version|Provides|Conflicts|Replaces"
Name : akonadi
Version : 26.04.0-1
Provides : libakonadi
Replaces : libakonadi
Conflicts With : libakonadi
There is no audio-cd-kio package in the repos. There is, however, the audiocd-kio package. It does not require libkcompactdisc:
pamac info audiocd-kio
Name : audiocd-kio
Version : 26.04.0-1
Description : Kioslave for accessing audio CDs
URL : https://apps.kde.org/kio_audiocd/
Licenses : GPL-2.0-or-later LGPL-2.0-or-later
Repository : extra
Installed Size : 2.5 MB
Groups : kde-applications kde-multimedia
Depends On : cdparanoia flac gcc-libs glibc kcmutils kconfig
kconfigwidgets kcoreaddons ki18n kio kwidgetsaddons
lame libkcddb libogg libvorbis qt6-base solid
Optional Dependencies : opus-tools: encoding to opus format
Required By : --
Optional For : kio
Provides : --
Replaces : --
Conflicts With : --
Packager : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Sat 11 Apr 2026 05:54:52
Install Date : Sat 18 Apr 2026 14:49:42
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Validated By : Signature
Backup files : --