Pacman -Rns vs Rsc

[dalto]

All versions of pacman -R are safe to use if you carefully read the list of packages to be removed before confirming the removal.

I wrote a brief description of the most common options here:

Little things the ex-Manjaro user needs to know

The n does the same thing in both cases, removes config files that would otherwise be saved so for simplicities sake I will exclude that from the examples. -R removes a package and if there is a dependency problem it just stops. -Rs removed a package and it’s dependencies, recursively. If the thing you are trying to remove is required by something else, it throws an error. -Rc removes a package. If dependencies get in the way, it removes those as well. -Rcs is the same as -Rc except it do…