Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
Hi,
pacman has an option --asdeps so the user can install packages as if
it were deps. In fact, such packages will be treated exactly the same
as normal dependencies:
<blah>
What are your ideas?
Thanks,
Dieter
That explanation made my head hurt.... So to put it succinctly, you
want a category for packages that are sort of dependencies, but not real
dependencies, but are not explicitly installed either. So something you
install because (e.g.) it is an optdepend.
I can see your point, but it does seem that adding another category of
package is a bit extreme. I do run into this problems as I have to
install optdepends as explicit as I use --asdep as a mechanism to keep
track of packages I am testing so I can just remove orphans to clean my
system. Maybe an option to set what packages you install something as a
dependency of is a compromise (still not sure how that would work....).
Allan
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