Archlinux updates fail

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updating archlinux gives this error:
installing pulseaudio (17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1) breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio<=17.0’ required by qubes-vm-pulseaudio

I don’t need audio in that qube so I tried the following which also failed. Any suggestions?

[root@archlinux ~]# sudo pacman -Rs pulseaudio
checking dependencies…
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulse-native-provider’ required by gnome-settings-daemon
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘pulseaudio<=17.0’ required by qubes-vm-pulseaudio
[root@archlinux ~]# sudo pacman -R qubes-vm-pulseaudio
checking dependencies…
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing qubes-vm-pulseaudio breaks dependency ‘qubes-vm-pulseaudio’ required by qubes-vm-dependencies
[root@archlinux ~]#

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I successfully updated using:
sudo pacman -Syyu --ignore=pulseaudio,libpulse

Hopefully update manage updates will soon resume working without this work around.

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