Why pacman suggest to delete some important and useful packages?

[tosziro]

Why pacman suggest to delete some imporatant and usefull packages? I think I need kernel, nvidia drivers, gnome settings etc.

[Strit]

That’s Pamac…

What does pacman say when you try removing the same package?

[tosziro]

Same, im trying to remove orphaned packages.

[kainonergon]

Hi. If you want to keep some of the orphaned packages you can mark them as explicitly installed with this command:

sudo pacman -D --asexplicit <package>

See man pacman for details

[tosziro]

oh, Im not expert and dont know which of them are necessary. I thought this would work like sudo apt-get autoremove on Debian based distros.

[XRaTiX]

This is a known bug in pamac

[Bug Report] Pacman shows updated AUR Packages as orphaned

For any reason, this package is marked as installed as a dependency. To solve it you can mark this package as explicitly installed. You can do it from Pamac GUI.

[bogdancovaciu]

@tosziro

work like sudo apt-get

Arch packaging is different than Debian packaging.
pacman -Qi <package> - will show you information about the package, required/dependency/optional
Even better, you can use
pamac info <package> - will show you information even for packages that are not installed.

Based on that information you can decide what to do.