Questions about kde-utilities-meta

Desktop Environments Plasma
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The way meta packages work is that they are empty packages that have everything added as dependencies.

If you want to remove something that is part of a meta package. You need to do a few things.

  • Make sure you have the package expac installed
  • Convert the individual packages to explicitly installed sudo pacman -D --asexplicit $(expac -S '%D' kde-utilities-meta)
  • Remove the meta package sudo pacman -R kde-utilities-meta
  • Remove the packages you don’t want sudo pacman -R kteatime kfloppy
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