Re: [pacman-dev] pacman PKGBUILD needs depends=(python)

On 3/30/07, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On 3/30/07, Andrew Fyfe wrote:

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Just installed arch to do some testing, went to run rankmirros as pacman suggests and no python, ooops. Python needs added to the depends list for pacman3.

Hmmm, we can't really do that. It's also more of an optional depend anyway, so we should add it to the install message.

Yeah, that might be a good thing to add. On a side note, what do you guys think about "optdepends"? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6626 If we pick a name now, we can worry about implementation details later. But it would be interesting to have this kind of thing. I did find, way back in Flyspray, a request for this same kind of thing that was closed by Judd because he thought it was unnecessary. I feel like things may have changed enough since then, but I don't know for sure. -Dan