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I'm running pacman -Qdtq and the only package that is being showed it is:
gcc14
but when I do
pactree -r prometheus-node-exporter
is just self referencing itself, so it seems that this package is orphan, but with pacman -Qdtq seem it's not. Does arch Linux in someway is using this package ? If not probably then it is a good idea to uninstall it, but no sure because of this situation explained before.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -exporter/
Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-10-04 14:40:42)
str( @soyg ) == str( @potplant ) btw!
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Check `pacman -Qi prometheus-node-exporter` for the install reason, maybe?
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So I made that and:
Name : prometheus-node-exporter
Version : 1.9.1-2
Description : Exporter for machine metrics
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
Licenses : Apache-2.0
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 16.80 MiB
Packager : Jelle van der Waa <jelle@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Wed 09 Apr 2025 02:56:02 PM -04
Install Date : Thu 10 Apr 2025 04:04:03 PM -04
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
It says depends on glibc and required by none. So I went to read the prometheus wiki and: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Prometheus
The default configuration monitors the prometheus process itself, but not much beyond that. To perform system monitoring, you can install prometheus-node-exporter which performs metric scraping from the local system.
So probably I installed it by using prometheus, but now I'm uninstalling some things to check memory usage without these kind of programs. But I'm wondering why pacman doesn't detect this as oprhan ? Maybe it is because is more like a service right ?
Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-10-04 15:34:29)
str( @soyg ) == str( @potplant ) btw!
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Because it's not an 'orphan'. What do the filter options you're using actually do?
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