oech3 [1] filed a deletion request for gnome-meta [2]: Use actual gnome group to install them. Meta package is just restriction for uninstalling unused packages (even for base and base- devel). And actual group never OOD. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oech3/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gnome-meta/