On 12/07/13 13:03, Drew DeVault wrote:
Optional dependencies are (or should be) listed in a PKGBUILD in order of importance. We previously rejected outputting them in alphabetical order because of this. Given this patch just groups the installed/not installed nature of the optdepend, I suppose this is more reasonable, but I am still reluctant. I can see the concern, but I think the importance of having a package installed disappears once you already have it. Also, surely uninstalled optdepends are the more important ones and should be listed first. The idea was getting them closer to the end of the output, where your caret will be prepared to type them in and install.
But that puts the most important uninstalled optdep in the middle of the output.