[solved] Arch Trying to remove required packages

[simple path]

when running pacman -Qqd | sudo pacman -Rsu - to remove unneeded packages as stated on the archwiki, Arch Linux attempts to remove ca-certificates and ca-certificates-mozilla which are both mostly vital for internet

[wary jasper]

What do you intend to do?
If your intention is to remove unneeded dependencies:

pacman -Qqtd | sudo pacman -Rns -

[astral prawn]

You mean remove orphans?

[primal ravine]

idrk why it wants to uninstall it but you can just pacman -D --asexplicit ca-certificates

[wary jasper]

I think cuz they listed all dependencies then used -u with -R. I still don't know why it would do that tho. -Qqtd should work fine then pipe into -Rns

[astral prawn]

What are you trying to achieve

You haven’t clearly identified that

[simple path]

"to remove unneeded packages as stated in the archwiki"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Detecting_more_unneeded_packages

Lmao

[primal ravine]

ok then just don't do that

[primal ravine]

if you really want to fix it then you can run this

[simple path]

yeah I did it's not happening now

[primal ravine]

ok

... close

[stuck torrent]

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