On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> 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 :-)

See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12950 and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13964 especially Dan comment : You can always go and tweak the database file to change the reason if truly necessary. and Nagy comment : If someone suggest me good pacman switches, I will provide a patch for this. ;-) (I think we need a new main operation, -D/--database for example).