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9 days agoThat’s listed in the makedepends array of the PKGBUILD, like here.
You might want to look into the query options -d in combination with -t for pacman’s -Q, to list packages installed as dependencies, but “Restrict or filter output to print only packages neither required nor optionally required by any currently installed package.”
Bonus cleanup pro-tip: alias pacorphans='sudo pacman -Qtdq | sudo pacman -Rns -' as explained in the wiki, mentioning makedepends in particular.
Crusty, cynical folks, entirely unlike and unrelated to myself, could be tempted to name it the Beginning of Eternal October for Linux.