I have installed nim as Arch Linux using pacman. When I tried to install a nimble package, it downloaded nim binaries tar and then installed it as a package in .nimble/pkgs2. Nim 2.2.10 is also there in .nimble/nimbinaries alongside tar package.
If I delete the .nimble/nimbinaries or .nimble/pkgs/nim 2.2.10 manually it gets downloaded again when installing any nim package using nimble.
Please help understand when nim 2.2.10 is already installed a linux package, why it also exists in .nimble folder as a package and under nimbinaries folder. Is there anything wring in this setup?
I have reinstalled nim assuming a setup issue but seems it is not. Thanks
Thanks. I understand that if a package requires a specific version, nimble with download that. However, the nim installed using pacman is already 2.2.10 and same is getting duplicated in
.nimble/nimbinaries and .nimble/pkgs2 .
Also none of the nim package installed has any dependency on prior nim version. It is all
nim >= xx.xx.xx. May be I am missing some finer points about nim installation.