Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
Hi, pacman has an option --asdeps so the user can install packages as if it were deps. In fact, such packages will be treated exactly the same as normal dependencies: <blah> What are your ideas? Thanks, Dieter
That explanation made my head hurt.... So to put it succinctly, you want a category for packages that are sort of dependencies, but not real dependencies, but are not explicitly installed either. So something you install because (e.g.) it is an optdepend. I can see your point, but it does seem that adding another category of package is a bit extreme. I do run into this problems as I have to install optdepends as explicit as I use --asdep as a mechanism to keep track of packages I am testing so I can just remove orphans to clean my system. Maybe an option to set what packages you install something as a dependency of is a compromise (still not sure how that would work....). Allan