When the vim package was updated to include all sorts of dependencies; I quickly added a package in my local repo that conflicts with vim; and depends on vim-minimal. This works pretty good; pacman says:

> warning: removing 'vim' from target list because it conflicts with 'vim-minimal'
> :: vim-minimal and vim are in conflict. Remove vim? [y/N] y

Which is fine. However; the original dependencies of vim (which I wanted to avoid) still get downloaded and installed:

...
(40/42) installing libyaml [#########################################################################################################] 100%
(41/42) installing ruby [#########################################################################################################] 100%
(42/42) installing lua [#########################################################################################################] 100%

These are obviously redundant dependencies; running `pacman -Qdtq` afterwards will list them