Update didn't work because conflict, now I can't reinstall my DE

I wanted to do an upgrade and it told me pipewire-media-session and wireplumber are conflicting. I selected pipewire-media-session for removal and it removed following packages without asking:

kwin plasma-workspace systemsettings sddm-kcm khotkeys kgamma5 powerdevil pipewire-pulse pulseaudio-ctl paprefs kdeplasma-addons kinfocenter gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack manjaro-pipewire pulseaudio-alsa plasma-desktop sddm-breath2-theme pavucontrol-qt plasma-pa pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa kcm-wacomtablet kget plasma-nm

So I just ran pacman -S kwin plasma-workspace systemsettings sddm-kcm khotkeys kgamma5 powerdevil pipewire-pulse pulseaudio-ctl paprefs kdeplasma-addons kinfocenter gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack manjaro-pipewire pulseaudio-alsa plasma-desktop sddm-breath2-theme pavucontrol-qt plasma-pa pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa kcm-wacomtablet kget plasma-nm

And this is what it gave me:

plasma-workspace: /usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.breezedark.desktop.appdata.xml exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop.appdata.xml exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezedark.desktop/contents/defaults exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezedark.desktop/contents/previews/fullscreenpreview.jpg exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezedark.desktop/contents/previews/preview.png exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezedark.desktop/metadata.desktop exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezedark.desktop/metadata.json exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop/contents/defaults exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop/contents/previews/fullscreenpreview.jpg exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop/contents/previews/preview.png exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop/metadata.desktop exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breezetwilight.desktop/metadata.json exists in filesystem (owned by breeze)

@maycne.sonahoz I saw the last thread already. It tells me in the error message that it is breeze, but I can’t uninstall breeze since that will uninstall a ton of other system packages (wireplumber and xdg-desktop-portal for example)

Then override. The conflicting files may have been moved from a package to another.

I just ran the same command with pamac and it is installing now. I just don’t get if I need to install wireplumber or pipewire-media-session or somehow both. From my undestanding wireplumber is a drop-in replacement for pipwire-media-session, is that correct?

It is a dropin replacement with more features:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WirePlumber#Benefit_to_Fedora

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