Removing KDE entirely

Hi everyone. I have a question... but first some background.
I have KDE 4/5 installed at the moment, but I'd like to remove it totally and completely. I don't use a login manager - when I log into TTY1, X starts with KDE, and I go from there. On that note, when I do remove KDE, I know I'll have to modify some file to tell it to start the other DE I want to replace KDE with (Xfce). That's fine.
Why do I want to remove KDE? Well, KDE is in a weird transition from KDE 4 into the thing it's becoming with QT5, Plasma 5, etc. This means that I'm technically running both QT4 and 5, and it's introducing too much bloat for my tastes. I'd be interested in returning to KDE once KDE5 completely replaces KDE4, but until then there's too much unnecessary crap installed on my system.
So the question.. exactly how do I go about totally removing KDE4, and everything that's come along with KDE5? Does remove the base group and all dependencies get rid of everything? Or, am I better off removing every single last installed package, a move I don't want to make seeing as how I've installed a lot of AUR packages?
I don't even mind trashing my KDE conf files. I want it all gone.

why? you can stay with kde4 4.14.3, without kde5 libs:) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1529823
Last edited by masolit (2015-05-22 21:54:50)

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