Recent stable updates and wxgtk2: what happened?

[winnie]

@hans

I would like to understand what happened.

There’s also an alternative series of events that might affect users who do not have any installed packages / PKGBUILDs that require wxgtk2, yet in the past they might have at one point in time.

wxgtk2 remained installed on their system, not being used by anything, yet still causes a conflict when trying to update the system, such as the Stable Updates from July 18.

I explain my experience in the below linked post.

Removing wxgtk-common breaks dependency required by wxgtk2

I believe there’s one extra “detail” in addition to this. Of my three Manjaro installations, two of them have the same packages installed via the AUR. However, only one of them had this issue with wxgtk2. Here’s what I think might have occurred with myself and others: In the past, there might have been an AUR PKGBUILD with wxgtk2 as a dependency. Installing the (mystery) package from the AUR naturally pulled in wxgtk2 from the repositories. Over time, this particular software from the AUR n…