Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:

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The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. <snip>

I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends

Thanks Allan. this is a good solution especially "optdepends can be removed with -Rs" and "optdepends are not orphans unless a flag is specified". Thank you :)