Cleaning up your arch packages is a bit of a chore. The key document listing the pacman invocations you will need is pacman/Tips and tricks (ArchWiki).
The basic flow I use is:
- list explicitly installed (
-Qe), - remove (
-R) any that I don't explicitly want, - remove orphans (
pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)).
I always end up with a bunch of KDE packages installed which I find annoying because it makes my upgrades go a lot slower due to their size and frequency of update. They must be pulled in by one of my explicit installs. Time to generate some dependency graphs:
- The PacVis homepage has a nice overview of package dependency visualization tools.
- pactree is in the pacman-contrib package (this took me about 20 minutes to figure out; there is a "tip" at the top of [Pacman (ArchWiki)[https:/
/ wiki.archlinux.org/ index.php/ Pacman]). - gephi is a powerful graph explorer. Need to find a meaty graph problem to use to learn it. This is probably not meaty enough.
Pactree reveals that krita is pulling in all those KDE packages. Well, I want to keep krita so I guess I'll put up with them :D.
