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Cleaning up packages?
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In addition to this, or rather before, you can run
pacman -D --asdeps package_nameto mark a package as a dep. If it is no longer required by something else it will be removed with the above. This can be useful for things that are deps that you installed manually at some point for some reason.And remember that you can recover from anything, even removing base packages or bootloader ones with a live cd and chroot or using pacman with a different root with the
--root /mntflag to pacman.Otherwise if your system still boots it is just a matter of following the install instructions for whatever is not working like you did the first time.
Oh, that's some amazing info, thanks!
I had noticed this might be a problem when I was setting something up and tried to install a dependency that was already on the system. It informed me it was being set to explicit and I wondered if it might lead to a situation like that.
--asdepsalso works when installing something to immediately mark it as a dep. Can be useful for non dep packages if you only need it temporarily as it will be removed the next time you purge unused deps.