23 Nov
2009
23 Nov
'09
3:13 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:06, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200
And finally, yes, there are optdeps, but pacman don't handle them as nicely it handles obligatory dependencies. If I install an optdep as an explicit installed package, when I uninstall the other package, the optdep will stay in my system. If I install it as a dependency, pacman will list it as an unnecessary dependency when I run pacman -Qdt.
Well, this is a point which I'm missing, too, on Arch. This should indeed be fixed in pacman.
Heiko
There are a few bugs on the tracker and some stuff on the wiki about planned improvements. I think most people like that idea of supporting it, someone just has to code it in.