[Solved] How to know why a package is being updated/installed
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?
I believe Pacman -Si or -Sii [package name] is what you are looking for.
-Sii is reverse dependencies iirc
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.
Oh, I didn't knew you can pass 2 i
s. I was depending on the tab completion from pacman
, but I didn't see that it says you could specify i
's