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[Solved] How to know why a package is being updated/installed (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, sometimes when I do pacman -Syu, I see some weird package being installed and I am curious which explicitly installed package is installing/updating it.

How do I so with pacman?

I know we can easily find out why an installed package is being installed, but what about before the package is being installed?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

pacman -Qi is the correct tool for this job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, it worked. I thought Qi only works for packages that are already installed. Didn't knew it worked for things that are synced as a new dependency of a package

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Dependencies are installed, they're just installed as dependencies lol