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#1 2025-05-26 19:00:30

Carp-Fisherman
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Was it only Me ?

Anyone notice that pacman decided to list installed packages as orphans that you use / need after recent updates a couple of days back when running sudo pacman -Qdt as routine.
Its an easy fix just wondering if was only me that had that little hikkup.
All my stuff is from official Arch packages and not AUR.
I could of ran pacman -D --asexplicit <pkgs> to make each of the packages explicitly installed which would have rectified the glitch.

But seems I did not have loads installed it was just as easy to remove the packages listed as orphan packages with sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdtq) and then simply reinstall the ones I was bothered about.
I tried a single package uninstall / re-install first and it worked so i nuked the lot and re-installed. LOL There was only a few in the list.Packages like Firefox, fastfetch, vlc, disk-utility, timeshift, kcalc, dolphin, gimp, gwenview , libreoffice, wireless_tools, zram-generator and network-manager-applet.

Not sure why it happened and I went through the pacman.log file and could not see anything out of place or nothing unusual regarding the update.
After I re-installed the same packages and same versions they were no longer in the Orphan list.
I am not worried but I thought someone else might of encountered this issue.
Strange .


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#2 2025-05-26 21:23:29

seth
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Re: Was it only Me ?

Ig might help to list at least some of the packages, they might have been installed as dependencies for another package but are no longer listed as that or the package that drew them in is no longer in the repos?

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#3 2025-05-26 22:02:26

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Re: Was it only Me ?

Carp-Fisherman wrote:

Anyone notice that pacman decided to list installed packages as orphans that you use / need after recent updates a couple of days back when running sudo pacman -Qdt as routine.

Pacman hasn't been updated since February, so... no.


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#4 2025-05-27 14:58:13

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Re: Was it only Me ?

It's actually happened to me a couple times this year whereas I don't recall it ever happening before, but despite a general revulsion to coincidences, I had in fact chalked it up to coincidence. Perhaps it is...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p2233656


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#5 2025-05-27 15:03:29

Carp-Fisherman
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Re: Was it only Me ?

gxt25 wrote:

It's actually happened to me a couple times this year whereas I don't recall it ever happening before, but despite a general revulsion to coincidences, I had in fact chalked it up to coincidence. Perhaps it is...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p2233656

Yea its a strange one LOL
Its easy to work with to fix it.

The only thing that threw me sideways a little was once the packages in question were re-installed with the exact same version they were no longer seen as orphaned.
Not to worry but at least I am not alone with this one. LOL.
These things are here to try us. hahaha

Thanks again


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