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Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by jorgemf on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:48AM (#33731234)
probably you installed something manually at some point, otherwise pacman does nothing wrong. Rarely you have to touch something manually because a mayor upgrade, but I think it has been like 4-6 times in 20 years for me.

If you want to install something manually in arch it is better to create a package first (if it is not already in aur). That way pacman can check for corruptions before installing anything

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Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by randbox on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:42AM (#33733306)
Pacman works when updating all packages simultaneously. However when updating only a requested package it can break by failing to pull in other packages which need to be updated simultaneously. For instance, pacman can break pacman and sudo by updating OpenSSL to a newer version than the currently installed version of pacman and sudo expect.
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