How to exclude optional deps on a `pacman -Rns`?

[dalto]

@Moonbase59

Is there maybe a way I could write what Pacman thinks it should remove to a file, then edit that to exclude those I want to keep, and feed it back to Pacman for final removal? I mean, kinda like we do when removing orphans?

That seems like a lot more work than sudo pacman -R quickemu && yay -Yc