Xavier wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I had a thought today that a script to list package that are optdepends but
not installed could be quite useful... I have not written one, but thought
it would be good for pacman-contrib if someone wanted to contribute.
Example output:
tk - optional for:
ruby - for Ruby/TK
python - for IDLE, pynche and modulator
fakeroot - optional for:
pacman - for makepkg usage as normal user
So get script writing! Preferably in bash or perl (which the current
scripts use).
If we implemented one of your suggestion for optdepends handling,
which is to display when an optdepends is installed or not, then it
should be very easy to do something of this kind, just using pacman
-Qi and grep :)
Maybe, but i think this script would still be very useful to show what
you could install and what for. I actually found it useful just now as
I saw a couple of uninstall optdepends that could be used by more than
one program. That makes them far more attractive to install.
Allan
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