What is the correct way or how do you do it when you want to remove a package and it wants to also remove other dependencies that will more than likely break your system at least partially.
I’m using the bellow command just because I found it first and it worked for me but I’m not sure this is the correct way to do it:
pacman -Rd --nodeps package
I always go with sudo pacman -Rns. This will remove the target package and all packages that were installed as dependencies for it and aren’t required by any other packages.
I prefer pikaur over pacman, as it saves a lot of time. The -s option is mandatory, to remove all dependencies. So, it is
pikaur -Rns
Don’t do that:
^ This.
Great, -Rns it is then, I don’t even know how I managed to miss that in the first place.
What does the -n do, negates if asked to remove some needed dependencies?
The -n option stands for -nosave. man pacman will return
-n --nosave
Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally, when a file is removed from the system, the database is checked to see if the file should be renamed with a .pacsave extension.
Thank you lots.
