Some packages safe to remove?

General system EndeavourOS repo
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Hello folks,

I’m just about to do some system cleanup.

When I started with EndeavourOS I began with the Plasma desktop, but after one year I decided to switch to GNOME (no KDE programs left afaik). On a second laptop I used GNOME from the beginning.

So now when I check the ist of installed packages I discovered a lot of “k”* programs plus breeze-icons. That remained on first computer but also were there from the beginning on the second one.

List:

  • karchive
  • kcodecs
  • kcolorscheme
  • kconfig
  • kconfigwidgets
  • kcoreaddons
  • kcrash
  • kglobalaccel
  • kguiaddons
  • ki18n
  • kiconthemes
  • kirigami
  • kirigami-addons
  • kitemmodels
  • kmod (edit - obviously needed)
  • krb5
  • ksvg
  • kwidgetsaddons

Is it safe to remove them? If I try to remove them and yay -R (list from above) does not complain, then it should be okay, right? Or is it being used by the EOS default packages from this repo?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend :slight_smile:

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this you should probably leave alone its not a kde but for systemd-boot

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oops. yes I just edited the list. keepassxc was also not intended to be there :wink:

Thanks thefrog!

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If you have installed GNOME from the beginning, you shouldn’t be getting those k-stuff unless you have happened to check for some application/packages in the DE selection part for Plasma.

As far as I can see, nothing in eos-base-group, eos-apps and gnome package lists should pull in those k-dependencies.

You can verify here: https://github.com/endeavouros-team/EndeavourOS-packages-lists

Anyways, for taking the path of caution, you couls use pactree -r PKG for any PKG to see if something in your system is dependent on it.

If it doesn’t output anything else than the PKG itself, you can safely remove it.

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This is kerberos. It has nothing to do with KDE.

As for the rest, I would just try removing them with pacman -R. If anything depends on them, it will not allow you to remove them.

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will remove krb5 from the list an give it a try. Thx guys.

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