pacman Notes
Keeping a list of native, explicitly installed packages can be useful to speed up installation on a new system.
$ pacman -Qqen > pkglist.txt
To install packages from the list backup, run:
# pacman -S - < pkglist.txt
In case the list includes foreign packages, such as AUR packages, remove them first:
# pacman -S $(comm -12 <(pacman -Slq | sort) <(sort pkglist))
To remove all the packages on your system that are not mentioned in the list.
# pacman -Rsu $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qq | sort) <(sort pkglist))
To clean out old packages stored in package cache, keeping previous version’s package (k1 = previous, k2 = previous and one before, etc., rvk1 = remove (verbose) keep 1).
# paccache -rvk1