[SOLVED] linux-firmware-intel on my ryzen laptop?

[exotic sable]

Can anyone explain to me why my pacman is updating that firmware? Do i get rid of it and how do i delete (preferably without nuking the installation) and if i should get worried?

[queen wedge]

You should not be worried, it's updating because there was a split in the linux-firmware package and it looks like this now

You can't delete the dependencies normally because.. they are dependencies

[upper cairn]

No. It's part of the firmware package

[exotic sable]

Oh i see, thats kinda bs. Ive seen a thread that told me i can mark them with pacman to not update them

[queen wedge]

i recommend checking this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2247567

[exotic sable]

Yeah that exact thread i saw

Thx everyone

[cold valve]

Before nuking it, theres sometimes use for it even if you dont directly have an intel cpu. You may wanna check with your hardware. I dont recall how but when they made the split someone asked on the arch forum how to check which firmware you need. Honestly keeping them all dont really hurt anything so thats what most people opted to do.

I think its the exact link Mialkotnik shared.

[shell swallow]

keeping it does no harm other than taking up storage space, or you can choose to only install the firmware packages your hardware needs and -Rns the rest

also

... solved

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[exotic sable]

Could you elaborate on what i could do?

[shell swallow]

you can either:

1. do nothing, which is perfectly fine
2. look your list of hardware, keep only the matching firmware packages and uninstall the rest