Re: [arch-general] Marking a package as a dependency

Magnus Therning wrote:

I just recently bothered reading part of pacman's man page and found that I probably should have performed a `pacman -U --asdeps mypkg.tar.gz` as I installed dependencies for packages I build manually. However I didn't, so can I retro-actively change the reason-for-installation of an already installed package without re-installing it? (No, I couldn't decipher whether the man page already tells me how to do this :-)

I have a suspicion that just reinstalling with the --asdep flag will change this for you. Otherwise, edit /var/lib/pacman/local/<pkg>/desc and change REASON from 0 to 1. Allan