What should I consider when deleting an AUR package?

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I downloaded utorrent and spotify from the AUR packages. Because of that I also had to install wine, but I couldn't manage to delete them, instead I deleted wine as a workaround and remove utorrent's and spotify's directories.

What is the right way to do it? Anything I'm missing?

The correct way to remove packages, supported or otherwise (AUR), is with pacman -R... — jasonwryan, Jun 11 '15 at 17:05
But I couldn't find neither spotify nor utorrent as installed packages but could run them with wine. — ericgramirez, Jun 11 '15 at 18:24
Your question isn't clear: did you install utorrent and spotify using makepkg and pacman or through wine? If the latter, I have no idea... — jasonwryan, Jun 11 '15 at 19:15
Then both files will be tracked in pacman's database and you can use pacman to remove them. — jasonwryan, Jun 11 '15 at 20:45

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '15 at 06:42

The correct way to delete a package is pacman -R package-name. To delete everything, including modified configuration files and dependencies you may have pulled in with a tool such as yaourt or packer, run pacman -Rns package-name.

In this respect, AUR packages are no different from native packages.

What should I consider when deleting an AUR package?

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