On Archlinux it is not recommended to update only one package with the package manager pacman. Let’s say I have 11 packages, and one of them is extra/firefox (true story). Updating only a pacman -S firefox could introduce problems, but installing a new single package if it wasn’t there is okay.

So my question is, could we get around this by removing and installing the same package again in one go: pacman -Rs firefox && pacman -S firefox

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    Isn’t pacman -Syu the recommended way to update anyway? I have always used that o. EndeavourOS and hadn’t any issues.

    Except for the recent nouveau nvidia driver :/