PENDING — NO IMPLEMENTATION SHIPPED
Arch has no centralized account setup, no first-boot wizard, and no installer with an
account creation flow that could prompt for age data. The archinstall script
is optional and minimal. If age reporting arrives on Arch, it would most likely come as:
A community-submitted package in the Arch User Repository. AUR packages are entirely opt-in and trivial to remove.
A package listed as an optional dependency of a desktop environment (e.g.,
gnome or plasma-desktop). Optional dependencies are not
installed by default unless explicitly requested.
Remove the package and its dependencies that are not required by other packages. The
-n flag also removes backup configuration files.
sudo pacman -Rns age-verification-package
Add the package to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf to prevent it
from being installed or reinstalled during system updates.
# /etc/pacman.conf IgnorePkg = age-verification-package
A pacman hook that runs on install transactions and removes or blocks the age reporting
package automatically. Hooks are placed in /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ and fire on
configurable triggers.
Arch's minimal philosophy makes it the least likely major distribution to ship mandatory age reporting. If it arrives, it will be optional, and removing optional things is what Arch users do.