There was a big update today, and in the summary, I noticed that net installation size was over 1GB, after I typed “y” (so I could not abort it). On close inspection, it seems that the size increase is because of all the intel-oneapi-XXXX packages, and as I suspected, Blender 17:3.4.1-20 had “intel-oneapi-compiler-shared-runtime” in the “Required” section, not in the “Optional Dependencies” section. That package required other OneAPI packages in a chain.
I do not have an Intel Arc GPU, and since that even the CUDA package is optional, isn’t it a bug that Blender REQUIRES OneAPI packages that takes 1GB+ space on a computer that does not have an Intel GPU?
Is the Blender package of EOS exactly the same thing as Arch’s? I kind of had an experience of asking a question about pacman on the Arch subreddit thinking that pacman is from Arch, but the question was removed, because Arch’s pacman was different.
Pacman is indeed a software provided by Arch. Endeavour has that only because it uses Arch as a base. The post might have been removed because its generally not accepted for users of Arch - based distros to ask on communities of Arch Linux. Could be something else too. Its the moderator’s discretion.
This got my curiosity up. So I installed the Blender flatpak. It installed without problems, and I now have this pretty interface that I don’t have the slightest idea what to do with it.