Am Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:22:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Lewis <pete@muddygoat.org>:
WARNING: Constructive part of the post!! :-)
If you think you need a list of packages to remember where you should interact, go on and create one your own.
Absolutely, why not? If someone really wants to implement this, why not have a flag set somewhere that tells pacman whether you want "package hints" or something turned on. Then let packages set a one line package hint. Not for everyone, but some people with poor memories (like me) might find it useful.
Patches welcome?
Cheers,
Pete.
Read again the Arch way: You make it what you want. We don't know if you install a pkg like dovecot to work on its documentation, to code stuff depending on its libs or headers or if you want to use it in its main direction as a daemon. Why should we make Arch more and more complex just to satisfy a few of you with things that are almost self explaining??? If you run a daemon or application that gets upgraded it's first your fault you didn't stop it before and 2nd your task to decide after reading the Changelog/commit-list if you have to solve your mistake by restarting the stuff. -Andy