Wanted to play with Rust so installed via the pamac GUI. Successfully wrote simple Hello World program. Then autocomplete stopped working. I would type pr and it would only suggest print and not println! Tried a few more project type things and it reported rustup wasn't available, so back to pamac to install that. Anyway after doing that VS Code reported other failures. So I thought I'd just uninstall all things rust and reinstall the way the rust web page suggests using curl which actually installs rust by installing rustup. However when returning to pamac, it only shows rustup installed and not rust however rustc is still on my system. The rust package which much larger (300+MB) than rustup (7MB), and is implied by pamac to not be installed because where it once offered the option to remove it now the button says Install. Anyway further attempts to remove rust is met with a warning to the effect that kate relies on rust. Really? I just installed this package yesterday and kate has been working. At this point my head is spinning from all the confusing messages and a proper rust installation with my Manjaro/rust skills, seems impossible.
Kate is only a simple text editor, but one that I use often, still if it's the only causality of war, I could survive so maybe I'll go ahead and uninstall. And hope when I install rust the rust suggested way , kate will work!?!?
But it's late Sunday and I hesitate because I'm working on a few things, and I don't want to deal with odd system behavior right now. I assume my Python virtual environments will continue to work if I have to do a reinstall. Because everything is local...right?
Then again I have a Clonezilla Manjaro root partition backup from June 20th. Looks like anaconda and jupyter-notebook are installed locally so hopefully I'll be OK there. That would help.
Perhaps will need to reinstall go and gnome-keyring?
So after evaluating the situation. My plan is...
Remove rust
Install rust using the curl method
See if kate works
See if rust works in VS Code
If anything looks funky...
Restore Clonezilla backup from ~3 weeks ago.
Reinstall anything missing