Request #26962 has been rejected by alerque [1]: ...also required by iPython2, which in spite of somebody having recently deleted one of it's other dependencies seems to be still in use. I'd love to see Python2 nuked entirely but starting with deps is probably not the way to do it. First make sure all the things that require this stuff are done with them, then go for the libs. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alerque/