To circumvent the issue I've set my pacman.conf to ignore
xf86-*
so that it could update other stuff in the meanwhile.
However, a new update came in that offers to keep
xorg-server
and remove
xf86-*
instead. Should I take this offer then?
In my case for the above, I simply undid what I did to my pacman.conf - I unignored xf86-* and everything has proceeded to update without trouble.