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Let's suppose I installed package A (pacman -S A) and one of its dependecy was package B so A is explicity installed and B is not. Later i have executed pacman -S B ,is now B a explicity installed or not?
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sorry for my english ;]
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Pacakge B was installed as a dependancy for package A. It's still a standalone package, it's just that A needs B for it to work. Doing pacman -S B will give you a "Package already installed. upgrade anyway?" message.
If you removed both A and B, and then re-installed B, then B would be install explicitly.
edit: on reading the post below, ignore this post.
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Yes, B is now explicitly installed. The most recent operation applied to a package determines its status.
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and if i install package B by:
Pacman -U B_newer_version.tar.gz
B_newer_version.tar.gz is of coure package located on my hard drive.
or equivalent:
cd /var/abs/B
makepkg -b -c -i
will it be expilicity installed or not?
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Explicitly installed.
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So there is no way tu upgrade system using abs in the same manner as pacman -Syu does . I suppose if pacman upgrades some packages installed as dependencies they are not expicity installed.
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