You can find the installation reason and what other packages require a given package from `pacman -Qi`.
Thanks for your advice, now I realize that it's a package required by gegl required by gnome-photos.
pacman -Qi openexr
Name : openexr
Required By : gegl gst-plugins-bad
pacman -Qi gegl
Name : gegl
Required By : gnome-photos
Granted prob has a lot to do with the fact that I'm a yet still newbie with many things Arch, but I was grateful that at least one other person was in the same boat... and surprised by general assumption that users of all proficiency levels should just already know what is going on with this, as most all answers indicate.
]]>aminvakil wrote:As I don't know what are ilmbase and openexr, this is out-of-the-ordinary user intervention.
No, a package replacement is not out-of-the-ordinary user intervention. Your particular knowledge of what a package does doesn't determine what is out-of-the-ordinary.
I didn't know these packages and I don't why they are installed on my system, so as I try to read carefully what packages am I installing on my laptop, I thought that this was a package from base group and therefore it's something that I should ask about.
]]>As I don't know what are ilmbase and openexr, this is out-of-the-ordinary user intervention.
No, a package replacement is not out-of-the-ordinary user intervention. Your particular knowledge of what a package does doesn't determine what is out-of-the-ordinary.
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would tell you what it is and also that it replaces ilmbase.
Then you can mark your thread as [Solved].
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Before upgrading, users are expected to visit the Arch Linux home page to check the latest news, or alternatively subscribe to the RSS feed or the arch-announce mailing list. When updates require out-of-the-ordinary user intervention (more than what can be handled simply by following the instructions given by pacman), an appropriate news post will be made.
As I don't know what are ilmbase and openexr, this is out-of-the-ordinary user intervention.
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gives me this error and as I didn't find any issue on Arch Linux Website I posted this new topic.
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