24 Apr
2009
24 Apr
'09
8:48 p.m.
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:34:15 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Is there a better way to handle optional dependencies than just manually creating a list and checking it against the current installed packages to see if you need to install them before issuing the sync command and having some of the packages reinstalled?
I can think of one: just don't install those packages at all until you need them!
DR
i use 2 custom bash functions. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59385 There are some rough plans to someday improve optdeps support in pacman itself though :) See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends Dieter