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#1 2025-10-04 14:40:04

Succulent of your garden
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tracking package that are dependent of prometheus-node-exporter

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/

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#2 2025-10-04 14:43:43

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Re: tracking package that are dependent of prometheus-node-exporter

Check `pacman -Qi prometheus-node-exporter` for the install reason, maybe?

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#3 2025-10-04 15:34:02

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Re: tracking package that are dependent of prometheus-node-exporter

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

ArchWiki wrote:

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 ?

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#4 2025-10-04 15:38:24

Scimmia
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Re: tracking package that are dependent of prometheus-node-exporter

Because it's not an 'orphan'. What do the filter options you're using actually do?

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