With all the AUR madness, I took it on myself to clean my system, starting with AUR (of which I had only about 7 packages installed directly). I removed 5 of them. Then I decided to look at orphans and I got rid of about 75% of those (or more), including all the lib32 things that were for legacy gaming (as I recall). I expected to find that some or all of my games wouldn’t run, but I vaguely remember that within the last year, progress had been made to not require the 32 bit libraries.
So, I was pleasantly surprised to find that everything (so far) seems functional with testing. Even with not being overly involved any more with compiling things, cruft and trash do seem to pile up in the corners.
Does anyone know anything (specific or general) that still require those old libs that I may have overlooked?
Mostly games are what require 32-bit libs.
However if they are orphans, it should be safe to remove them.
Yeah, you’d think that…but I seem to remember having issues with either games or possibly playing media in browsers with things that weren’t installed/required. However, it’s entirely possible (and even likely) that these memories are ghosts of the past and not this installation at all?
Edit: Even more weird thing, I noticed that the game I’m currently playing is running less CPU and lower temps on the GPU than before my purge this morning. I dunno, but so far so good? Maybe just the phase in the game, I have no idea.