On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:58:10 +0800, Felix Yan wrote: > It was a dependency of gnome-settings-daemon until 3.10.2-3, when the > ibus package was split and the dependency was updated to libibus.
I tested Mate and Cinnamon, they are still installed, but I don't use them at the moment. Likely it was a dependency of one of those DEs. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Q | grep gnome-settings-d gnome-settings-daemon-compat 3.6.4-8 gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse 3.14.1-1 [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pactree -r gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse └─gnome-settings-daemon-compat [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pactree -r gnome-settings-daemon-compat gnome-settings-daemon-compat [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Qi gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse gnome-settings-daemon-compat Required By : gnome-settings-daemon-compat Optional For : None Conflicts With : gnome-settings-daemon Replaces : gnome-settings-daemon Install Reason : Explicitly installed Name : gnome-settings-daemon-compat Depends On : gnome-settings-daemon Optional Deps : None Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package gnome-settings-daemon-compat is one of the packages pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs - wants to remove, gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse isn't one of those packages. Perhaps something to do when doing the spring cleaning.