Is kfilemetadata5 an obsolete package?

Desktop Environments Plasma
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When updating tonight with both EnOS x86_64 and EnOS ARM and with Plasma, I got the following from yay

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: kfilemetadata5
 -> kfilemetadata5: local (5.116.0-2) is newer than AUR (5.116.0-1)
 there is nothing to do`:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: kfilemetadata5
 -> kfilemetadata5: local (5.116.0-2) is newer than AUR (5.116.0-1)
 there is nothing to do

Attention to the lines

 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: kfilemetadata5
 -> kfilemetadata5: local (5.116.0-2) is newer than AUR (5.116.0-1)

The AUR does have kfilemetadata5-5.116.0-1 and the regular Archlinux package repository does not have any version of kfilemetadata5. So where did
kfilemetadata5-5.116.0-2 come from??

Pudge

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Since the move to KDE 6, the only reason to keep any of the k*5 packages is if another package requires it.

You can check with pactree -r kfilemetadata5.

That being said, it is pretty likely you don’t need it anymore.

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pactree did not show any dependencies so I removed kfilemetadata5-5.116.0-2

kfilemetadata5-5.116.0-2 must have been in the Archlinux extra repo for a short while and then removed.???

Pudge

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Yes, it would have stayed there as long as something else required it that was also in the repo. Once whatever package was requiring it was updated to not use it anymore, it would have been dropped from the repos.

This has been slowly happening with many k*5 packages as they are no longer needed.

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Thank you for the explanation about kfilemetadata5 & Archlinux extra repo. My seventy something brain would not have thought that out.

Pudge

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