Posting here as there doesn’t seem to be an active Arch Linux community.
I noticed while updating my system today that I have a bunch of qemu packages I don’t recall installing. So I took a look at why they were there and found this:
Name : qemu-base
Required By : qemu-desktop
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Name : qemu-desktop
Required By : None
Optional For : qemu-base
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
It seems like qemu-desktop was a dependency for something I later removed and pulled in qemu-base. However, because of the dependency cycle, they aren’t showing up as orphans and has just been hanging around in my system along with 150mb of other dependencies.
Correct?
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qemu-desktopis only “optional” forqemu-base. You can safely remove qemu-desktop, pacman won’t nag about optional dependencies.For checking dependencies, I like to use
pactree, it draws nice graphs in the terminal: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Pactree