Let me add more fire here: what I feel is really missing is an option (maybe a pmtransflag for implementation details) for installing optdepends. Otherwise, even with those suggestions, they really remain nothing but some lines of text. It could be implemented as a flag (better imho) or as a pacman.conf option
On Friday 06 March 2009 01:15:10 Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I have been thinking about optdepends and if we can improve the handling > of them. So, given I am better at making wiki pages than patches... > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends > > What do people think about this idea? Are there other sensible > additions to that proposal? > > I know that optdepends were originally for getting rid of informational > messages but I have some packages on my system that are installed > "explicitly" when they are really (opt)deps for other packages. > > Allan > > > > _______________________________________________ > pacman-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
