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?

  • Victor
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    211 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.