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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Infernal_pizza to c/[email protected]
 

The past few times I’ve run yay I’ve got these warnings about packages that are orphaned/not in the AUR. Based on the names I’m assuming these are leftover from the upgrade from kde plasma 5 to 6, are these safe to remove now? And secondly how would I find orphaned packages like that if I wasn’t using yay since I never installed these from the AUR?

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[–] Infernal_pizza 1 points 6 months ago

By safe I guess I more meant should I be doing anything beforehand. I’m running snapper on btrfs so even if I do completely destroy everything it’s not too much of an issue but I’d rather avoid it if possible!

I found out how to check for orphaned packages with pacman thanks to another comment so I’ve removed them now