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yay -Rns cancer cancer-lib32
I only recently moved to Arch and am still learning, what does the n and s flags do?
-R removes a package. -Rs makes sure that all the then-unused dependencies are also removed along with it. -Rns is not really recommended for general use, but the -n flag removes configuration backup files (in case you consider those bloat).
For more info, check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Usage
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