Should the warnings about cyclic dependencies be ignored

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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I just updated my system using the EOS Welcome screen option, After Install > Update Native Packages (eos-update). While doing this I received the following warning messages

warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: librsvg will be installed before its gdk-pixbuf2 dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xdg-desktop-portal-kde will be installed before its plasma-workspace dependency

The update was successful and there were no errors reported in the terminal window.
How do I check if something has gone wrong or not? Is there something to be concerned about?

How can I check if the packages librsvg, gdk-pixbuf2, xdg-desktop-portal-kde and plasma-workspace have been installed properly without any issue?

How can this be avoided in the future?

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This is the important observation.

The warnings are intended to inform the user. If there is no specific error that stops the transaction, this does not require manual intervention.

Go on using your system as usual!

You may see this from time to time. It’s just pacman’s way of resolving the dependencies of the packages needing to be installed.

Don’t worry about the warnings.

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Thanks

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