Well, speaking for myself, whenever I install anything on my system, I get a list of the dependencies to be installed along with it. I could review them and choose to say Y/N to install or not.
So this issue of packages being installed “without the knowledge” of the user has never happened to me.
This is even more true with the packages installed from AUR where one is supposed to review the PKGBUILD to install a package. And review all its dependencies.
Sure, but an Arch system requires a bit of input from the user to maintain and keep it running.
It’s not an install and forget system
But the concept of “packages being installed on my system without my knowledge” is alien to me. No matter how long ago they got installed, I must have given my Y for it, consciously and willingly .
With that said, I wish you good luck on a successful maintenance of your Arch system in the continuation.
mlt6 was dropped from the community repo, and was imported into the AUR five days ago. It used to be a dependency of flowblade (and synfig), but now it’s only required by the flowblade-git package (and also by openshot-git).
Here’s the commit from Jan 5th that switched flowblade from mlt6 to mlt7 (which is the regular mlt package):
