Script to ask user if depencies that were explicitly installed should be marked as dependencies.

fix-explicit-deps.sh

#!/bin/bash
explicitPkgs="$(pacman -Qeq)"

# Create list of all dependencies, whether explicitly installed or not
allDeps=""
for pkg in $explicitPkgs; do
   allDeps+=" $(pactree -u $pkg | awk 'NR>1')"
done
depsList="$(echo $allDeps | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq)"

# Create new list containing literal dependencies installed explicitly
explicitDeps="$(echo $depsList $explicitPkgs | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -d)"

# Ask user if each package should be marked as a dependency
for pkg in $explicitDeps; do
   while true; do
       read -p "Change $pkg install type from explicit to dependency? [yn] " yn
       case $yn in
           [Yy]* ) sudo pacman -D --asdeps $pkg; break;;
           [Nn]* ) break;;
           * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
       esac
   done
done