I solved the problem by updating the mirror
(I removed 2 nations close to me and I only gave them up in my nation)
I am in Italy: I always updated the Mirror with “Italy” “France” and “Switzerland”
I left Italy alone by removing the others and now he does not even ask me to replace the two DependeNces anymore. Probably something does not work in France or Switzerland!
I didn’t trust my instincts so searched forum first. I hit Y–after reading you-- and rest of update threw no errors.
Did your -Rdd command just for the redundant certainty but of course pacman didn’t see package since I nuked it with my Y.
thanks for being there of the OP. Helped me as well.