I just got an update for this package. However its from the AUR and I don’t recall installing it (it may have been installed as a dependency, but I don’t know).
However I’m inclined to think that it is a package that Manjaro no longer uses and has thus shifted it to the AUR (this has happened a few times in the past before).
I guess that’s what I"m trying to find out: is this package deprecated and no longer necessary? And thus can I remove it?
SOLVED: It looks like a dependency associated with the custom Proton for Steam, GE
@helpcomputer: It seems that this has been in the AUR for awhile (2019-08-12), so I would doubt that it was installed as a dependency of anything from the official repos.
I’m so sorry to bother you with a minor complaint; but I’m running into a weird issue and I want a sanity check to make sure that I’m not making some silly error.
If I just try to update directly from the terminal (was using Pamac earlier) by sudo pacman -S python-ufonormalizer
(for now let’s ignore the overwrite command as shown in the link you provided)
I get an error saying target not found. And the same if I try it with the overwrite command.
It makes me think I’m making a basic mistake with the terminal: do you know what that might be?
If the mistake is more complicated and not a basic terminal mistake, just let me know and I’ll continue searching.
As an update, I couldn’t figure out how to update, i just ended up removing the conflicting packages (because that’s essentially what the link you sent suggested, removing/overwriting).
However it installed alongside a package I did want to install (Steam proton); I’m assuming its essential to get that working.
So I’m keeping it; I’m not adept enough to pick and choose which packages I need and which I don’t.
My initial confusion was just if this was a package Manjaro stopped using; but no it turns out python-ufonormalizer is something that I installed when installing Steam-Proton.