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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      6 months ago

      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

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    6 months ago

    I believe Pacman -Si or -Sii [package name] is what you are looking for.

    -Sii is reverse dependencies iirc

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      6 months ago

      From the pacman man page:

         -i, --info
             Display information on a
             given sync database package.
             Passing two --info or -i
             flags will also display
             those packages in all
             repositories that depend on
             this package.
      
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      6 months ago

      Oh, I didn’t knew you can pass 2 is. I was depending on the tab completion from pacman, but I didn’t see that it says you could specify i’s