You can remove these manually or if using an aur helper like yay there are flags/settings you can use to delete them after the desired package was installed.
However what I was talking about aur packages that are unmaintained or do not have a maintainer anymore.
Is there a flag to prevent orphaned packages from installing?
Good question, I guess I might be using the wrong word when i say “orphan” because I see the arch wiki uses that term differently
You can remove these manually or if using an aur helper like yay there are flags/settings you can use to delete them after the desired package was installed.
However what I was talking about aur packages that are unmaintained or do not have a maintainer anymore.
I’m researching more at the moment.
shit, I had 150 orphaned packages
pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -I made an alias for this, but IMO this cleanup should be automatic. The user didn’t install it themselves after all.
This can be prevented by uninstalling with -Rs
Just removing them without user intervention could cause unexpected behavior.
I don’t trust that everything that outputs from
pacman -Qdtqshould be deleted. Like I want to keepvlc.I think if you do pacman -S vlc it won’t be orphan anymore though. I removed everything, if I miss something I’ll install it again.
A simple install kept it orphaned. Instead I needed to run
sudo pacman -D --asexplicit vlc