Find a proper solution to automate EOL kernel removal via ALPM
Manjaro 24.0 mostly shipped with the linux69 kernel, which got removed in today's stable update. So some people manage to get unbootable systems or the Nvidia driver uninstalled, due to pamac's automatic conflict resolution. There was a Nvidia driver update as well, and no extramodules update for the dropped kernel. Some issues:
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/cannot-get-to-desktop-after-latest-system-update/168749
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nvidia-driver-update-broke-nvidia-drivers/168761
- https://forum.manjaro.org/t/cannot-change-to-a-different-kernel-from-6-9/168728
For now I created a new meta package, which installs the linux610 packages as needed: PKGBUILD
Since pamac has already the kernel management to install extramodules based on the current kernel, would it be not possible to automate the EOL kernel removal via pamac and update the next available kernel series? However, we might need to patch pacman to do a similar thing. For now those meta packages handle it with replace and conflict functions.