I am on stable. Why do 2 small updates demand 170 MiB of updates?
Those are dependencies for the new web-installer-url-handler update as itâs been ported to PySide6.
Why would I want to install so many libraries just to be able to install something from discover.manjaro.org?
Also, weirdly, the dialog shows wrongs lib sizes, so I guess itâs not 170 MiB, but much more than 500 MiB. All this is a terrible bloatware, that I donât want to take space on my desktop.
Usually, you need the compiler for building a custom kernel.
Also: the compiler is part of the Linux Standard Base.
pamac shows the installed size and not the downloaded size (which is 170MB in this case).
alternatively you can get rid of manjaro-hello and skip this whole episode, provided you are not going to install from discover.manjaro.org
I didnât think it was needed but realized in a rolling release you are going to be spending lots of time eliminating things you may not need if you start doing that - better to accept it all & just not use it - until you do.
Am I being shortsighted? Something else one should consider about a rolling release & selectivity?
Later I found the flatpack/snap installer off of Hello has been replaced with this, it appears.
Thanks in advance for your insights
it depends, Iâve installed manjaro from minimal installation, so i think it was pretty lean to begin with. Iâve trimmed it down since then with things that i absolutely donât use like in this case âmanjaro-helloâ, i did use it initially while installing apps but since then no. if you are recurring user you should totally keep it.
for the minute apps i use from AUR so far none has required clang or llvm so currently itâll be bloat, but who knows, tomorrow i might need them. so right now Iâve no reason to keep it. Iâm pretty sure there are other bloat i havenât noticed so far. but you really should be knowing what you doing when doing these trimming. take even optional dependencies into consideration. basically i also think of the kind of âdentâ it will leave and decide against it at times
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wait you can remove manjaro-hello without breaking anything?
yes, is pretty self contained app. removing it will take with it the topic starter web-url-installer thingee with it.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
I checked the llvm dependencies as the 274MB seemed kinda steep to me, but saw oodles of important stuff using llvm - and there was previously an even bigger âtoolchainâ.
But it was impressive how many components seem to use. More importantly the kernel itself apparently is using clang/llvm to help reduce memory requirements, as alluded to by Keruskerfuerst, and seems to be the trend in Linux distros (i.e OpenSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release).
Thatâs one of the first thing I instantly remove after an installation. It is not really useful to me, maybe to a new user, as it contains links to Manjaro related stuff, has a quick access to programs to install on first boot, things like that, but it is definitely not something your system NEEDS (and if you still want to thing web-installer-url-handler to be able to use Discover to install from it if I understood correctly (Discover is also something I would remove instantly :D), then install it manually.
Looks like you just have to be careful because if you use the pamac GUI it tries to remove a lot of stuff as Orphans. like Wayland, and Vulken lol
What? Removing manjaro-hello from Pamac, removes also Wayland and Vulkan stuff? Allow me to doubt it. Can you show us what it does for you so we could verify what youâre saying?
To akin2Silver:
Aha, thanks for mentioning âorphansâ.
i DID do a âPacman -R --unneededâ just before many Vulkan issues appeared, better reinstall.
Thanks & Best Wishes
vulkan-headers is a dependency of qt6-base which itself was a dependency for [skipping other intermediate dependencies] manjaro-hello.
I donât see Wayland here. Iâm curious what youâre talking about, if that was Wayland dependencies, shouldnât Wayland be in the list here in the packages âto removeâ?
So it is just normal operation here to me, nothing suspicious.
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