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Hello,
Today I tried to pacman -Syu and it wants me to choose one of four packages that provide vulkan-driver. Unfortunately, I don't think any of the 4 options given will work, since I must use the nvidia-340xx legacy driver.
But, "named features" (is that what they're called?) like vulkan-driver are something I've never been able to figure out how to get pacman to tell me much about. Is there some way to find out what provides vulkan-driver on my current system, or what depends on it? Because I'm not even sure why I need it, or why pacman wants to install it.
Last edited by Xezlec (2020-05-20 22:13:50)
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AH! Steam!
Thanks! But I still wish I knew a way to find the answers to questions like this on my own. Does anybody happen to know a way to track down new "feature" dependencies like that? "pacman -Ss vulkan-driver" doesn't work, but something similar?
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Pay attention to pacman's output, it should tell you when a package receives new dependencies (though I'm admittedly not sure anymore whether it will list that before the relevant provider prompt). Alternatively, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Pactree
Last edited by V1del (2020-05-20 08:27:15)
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Perfect. I've seen that tool in the documentation before but somehow it just didn't click that it was the right tool for this kind of job.
Many thanks!
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