On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Arokux B. wrote:
Hi,
is something going to happen with this patch? I think the feature it introduces is really useful. This was my first patch to pacman and I've spent quite some time to make it, so it's really discouraging to see buried in the mailing list.
Thanks Arokux
And in my original reply to you, I pointed out that we already have a patchset that deals with optdepends in a more complete way. I'll link it again so that there's no confusion: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-November/014772.html And I'll also point you to roadmap in the wiki that mentions this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap It's not that we're not interested in the feature. Rather, we are, but we're more interested in the complete solution that the patchset provides. A one-off that addresses a singular problem with alpm's optdepends handling is not interesting given a more thorough alternative. That said, it has a few problems which weren't addressed, and the author no longer has interest (they're using Exherbo these days). If you're interested in seeing this merged, I suggest grabbing the previous author's branch [1], rebasing the patchset, and addressing the concerns that Dan raises in the ML thread that I linked above. Cheers, Dave [1] https://github.com/moben/pacman