also, did you run any of the various options for pacman removal recently? like pacman -Rc <pkg>? the cascade option can do things like that...
I dunno how it happened...
you can also pacman -Rd freetype2 and it keeps all dependancies...
My gut points to some odd removal option as something similar happened to me once....
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