Arch Linux forum user itsbrad212 had link to scripts he has written. One of them was updatescript where I learned about pacman option -Qqdt which will print out list of orphaned packages.
Running that I found out that I had over 60 packages installed that my system didn’t need. I ended up using his script to clean them. First script does complete system upgrade and then loops around orphan removal function until there are no orphans left in system.
Offcourse you could this manually as well. Safety of removing orphans is discussed for example in this thread.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by spot tops. spot tops said: RT @archlinux_es: [Ingles] #archlinux Cleaning orphaned packages from Arch Linux installation http://bit.ly/cTwhW6 !archlinux [...]
this script removed “polkit”, foundamental on my system….
i get no network manager working, not halt-reboot icon… no internet…
i solved downloading the package from another pc and install it with pacman…
Interesting. Did it remove anything else that it shouldn’t have had? In the forum thread I linked to one user pasted output of orphan list and it included lots of packages that shouldn’t have been there. I had no that sort of problems.
after reinstalled polkit seems that I haven’t other problems for now…