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title	date	draft	type	tags
Analyzing My Packages	2020-11-25 22:03:34 -0600	true	post	Linux

Recently, I ran yay -Ps, and I was horrified to discover that I have a total of 1614 packages installed, including 193 explicitly installed packages. How did my slim and lean Arch install become so bloated? I thought it would be a good exercise to go through my list of explicity installed packages and figure out why each of them was installed.

Core

Essentials

• base
• bash-completion
• linux
• linux-firmware
• linux-headers
• sudo

Arch stuff

• arch-install-scripts
• archlinux-wallpaper
• pacgraph
• reflector
• yay-bin

Boot and dual-boot stuff

• efibootmgr
• grub
• intel-ucode
• ntfs-3g
• os-prober

CLI tools

• bpytop
• emacs
• fish
• fzf
• htop
• hyperfine
• nano
• neofetch
• tldr
• vi
• vim
• youtube-dl

Graphics

Graphics

• intel-media-driver
• libva-utils
• vulkan-intel
• weston
• xdotool
• xf86-video-nouveau
• xorg-server-xwayland
• xorg-xbacklight
• xorg-xhost

KDE Plasma

• breeze-grub
• dolphin-plugins
• kcm-wacomtablet
• Everything in kde-applications-meta minus kde-accessibility-meta, kde-education-meta, and kde-games-meta (kde-applications-meta comes with about 70 applications just starting with K, so you need to remove the heavy hitters to reduce bloat)
• plasma-meta
• plasma-wayland-session
• packagekit-qt5
• xdg-user-dirs

i3

• dmenu
• feh
• i3-wm
• i3lock
• i3status

Web browsers

• brave-bin
• browsh-bin
• chromium
• firefox
• links
• lynx

Awesome free and open-source apps

• audacity
• blender
• gimp
• gparted
• inkscape
• krita
• libreoffice-fresh
• mpv
• obs-studio
• vscodium-bin
• xournalpp

Games and emulators

• 2048-py
• dolphin-emu
• Everything in the libretro package group.
• supertux
• supertuxkart
• yuzu-mainline-bin

Developer

Stuff in base-devel

• autoconf
• automake
• bison
• fakeroot
• flex
• groff
• m4
• make
• patch
• pkgconf

Git

• git
• github-cli
• github-desktop-bin

Java

• eclipse-java-bin
• jdk-openjdk

Python

• jupyterlab
• pypy3
• python-pip
• python-poetry
• python-pylint
• python-tox
• python-wheel
• sagemath
• sagemath-jupyter
• tk
• twine

Ruby

• ruby
• ruby-bundler
• rubygems

zsh

• zsh
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-completions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• powerline
• powerline-fonts

Other useful stuff

Laptop tools

• libinput_gestures_qt
• onboard

Printing

• cups
• hplip

Networking

• bluez-utils
• bridge-utils
• dnsmasq
• ebtables
• freerdp
• networkmanager
• net-tools

Pretending my computer is running something other than Arch

Virtualization

• docker
• edk2-ovmf
• libguestfs
• libvirt
• lxc
• lxd
• qemu
• vagrant
• virt-manager
• virtualbox
• x11docker

Wine

• playonlinux
• wine
• wine-gecko
• wine-mono
• winetricks

Miscellaneous

Hacking

• checkra1n-cli
• fusee-launcher-git
• ns-usbloader
• nx-udev

Proprietary stuff

• unrar
• zoom

Everything else I couldn't categorize

• cool-retro-term
• cryfs
• flatpak
• noto-fonts-emoji
• obs-v4l2sink
• pulseaudio-bluetooth
• usbutils
• v4l2loopback-dkms