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.
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.
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