Re: [aur-general] When to use optdepends (was: AUR package q -- newbie)

2020-05-12 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 5/12/20 9:55 AM, Markus Schaaf wrote: >> It's not really clear to me when to optdepend. > > Comments welcome. My idea is to use optdepends for things the user may > want, but it's not obvious how to make them work, like a glue-library > the application needs to use another facility, e.g. gpgme

Re: [aur-general] When to use optdepends (was: AUR package q -- newbie)

2020-05-12 Thread Dan Sommers
On Tue, 12 May 2020 15:55:58 +0200 Markus Schaaf wrote: > > It's not really clear to me when to optdepend. > > Comments welcome. My idea is to use optdepends for things the user may > want, but it's not obvious how to make them work, like a glue-library > the application needs to use another

Re: [aur-general] When to use optdepends (was: AUR package q -- newbie)

2020-05-12 Thread hashworks via aur-general
On Tue, 12 May 2020 15:55:58 +0200 Markus Schaaf wrote: > > It's not really clear to me when to optdepend. > > Comments welcome. My idea is to use optdepends for things the user may > want, but it's not obvious how to make them work, like a glue-library > the application needs to use another

[aur-general] When to use optdepends (was: AUR package q -- newbie)

2020-05-12 Thread Markus Schaaf
> It's not really clear to me when to optdepend. Comments welcome. My idea is to use optdepends for things the user may want, but it's not obvious how to make them work, like a glue-library the application needs to use another facility, e.g. gpgme to use gpg, or ghostscript to produce PDF.