Greetings,
I do not know from where i got it (could have been the wiki or forums
or reddit, but most likely is wiki), but i have always done
`pacman -Qttdq`. I do no think it will make a huge difference though.
You can mark packages to be installed explicitly by `pacman -D
--asexplicit`. You can also uninstall it and re install with pacman
-S, and it should work, though for some packages you can not remove
them (either have too many dependants or really required for system or
pacman (like bash)). If you truly want to experiment with removing
them, try `pacman -Rdd` but please do not use it if you can,
especially with any dependencies of pacman, as that is a very fast way
to break pacman.
tnx,
The real question is why the installation reason changes from
“Explicitly installed” to “Installed as a dependency of another
package.” on it's own
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I sometimes use -Syu
together with --asdeps ...
