Sometimes I go through the packages I installed using pacman and check which ones I want to uninstall. However, I often see myself running pacman -Qi <package_name> for a lot of them to check dependencies/description/install date/etc. before deciding what to do with them. This is incovenient as I need to type the package name multiple times to query and to remove, so I created a small script that sorts this out.
Please be warned that this appends extra lines to your startup script (e.g. .zshrc or .bashrc) in order to add autocompletion support. I suggest you check the source code before using the command.
$ source install.sh
$ veto_pkg coreu<Tab>
$ veto_pkg coreutils
Name : coreutils
Version : 8.25-2
Description : The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils
Licenses : GPL3
Groups : base
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc acl attr gmp libcap openssl
Optional Deps : None
Required By : ca-certificates-utils linux mkinitcpio netctl util-linux
Optional For : usbutils
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 13.22 MiB
Packager : Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@seblu.net>
Build Date : Sat 14 May 2016 13:50:37 BST
Install Date : Thu 02 Jun 2016 20:00:39 BST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
[K]eep | [U]ninstall | Uninstall with [D]ependencies | Uninstall Dependencies [R]ecursively
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