Posting here as there doesn’t seem to be an active Arch Linux community.
archlinux@lemmy.ml seems active to m
Your text says qemu-desktop
is only “optional” for qemu-base
. You can safely remove qemu-desktop, pacman won’t nag about optional dependencies.
For checking dependencies, I like to use pactree
, it draws nice graphs in the terminal: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Pactree
Asking good questions is not easy.
If you ask a question which was already answered thousand of times you should search for the answer, not ask it again. Obviously from your point of view it’s a new question, but if someone replies to a lot of threads it can become annoying to see the same thing again and again.
Other common wrong question is when you don’t give enough details.
If you experience that your questions are downvoted frequently, please read this old guide “How To Ask Questions The Smart Way”. If you ask good questions, there is a bigger chance someone will help you