On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Arokux B. wrote: > Hi, > > is something going to happen with this patch? I think the feature it > introduces is really useful. This was my first patch to pacman and > I've spent quite some time to make it, so it's really discouraging to > see buried in the mailing list. > > Thanks > Arokux >
And in my original reply to you, I pointed out that we already have a patchset that deals with optdepends in a more complete way. I'll link it again so that there's no confusion: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-November/014772.html And I'll also point you to roadmap in the wiki that mentions this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap It's not that we're not interested in the feature. Rather, we are, but we're more interested in the complete solution that the patchset provides. A one-off that addresses a singular problem with alpm's optdepends handling is not interesting given a more thorough alternative. That said, it has a few problems which weren't addressed, and the author no longer has interest (they're using Exherbo these days). If you're interested in seeing this merged, I suggest grabbing the previous author's branch [1], rebasing the patchset, and addressing the concerns that Dan raises in the ML thread that I linked above. Cheers, Dave [1] https://github.com/moben/pacman
