Arch Linux

Description:
The qemu-desktop package seems to be weirdly constructed. On one hand it lists for example qemu-audio-oss as an optional dependency but also as a hard dependency. This is true for many other dependencies. As far as I understand a dependency should be either optional or required, but I may be wrong. Also this is not consistent, as some dependencies (mostly the qemu-system-*) are indeed truly optional dependencies.

You could uninstall qemu-desktop as it is a meta-package. However, in that shouldn't package groups be used instead (as is the case for KDE for example) with an optional qemu-desktop-meta that pulls in everything? That does not seem to be the case for qemu-desktop.

Additional info:
* package version(s): qemu-desktop 7.0.0-10

Steps to reproduce:
1. Want to remove some un-needed parts of qemu.
2. See that qemu-audio-oss etc is listed as an optional dependency and decide to uninstall it since I use pipewire.
3. Get very confused when pacman claims it is required.