A User Command to Clean and Update System

General system Newbie
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A few things here that you might want to consider/know.

  • I am fairly certain that paccache -ruk0 and pacman -Sc do the exact same thing. Remove packages you no longer have installed from the cache. There is no reason to call both of them.
  • Unless you are using a mirror that is severely broken(no out of date, but broken), there is no need to use -Syyu when switching mirrors. -Syu or in your case just yay is sufficient.
  • Please be sure you know what pacman -Rns actually does and aren’t just copy and pasting it from somewhere else.
  • You are ranking the EOS mirrors but not the Arch mirrors. Since 99% of the packages come from the Arch mirrors, you might want to add that.
  • Is there a reason you are using echo "$1" into all those commands?
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