On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
One last problem : the pacman.conf needs to be updated. Most important points : 1) remove unstable mirror section 2) add SyncFirst
This may be an overkill, but this can be mentioned in .INSTALL file too, because user may omit pacman.conf.pacnew. Or give a general message: "New options were added to pacman.conf, please check pacman.conf.pacnew (if it exists) and pacman.conf manual for details"
Well I am not sure Dan would like that after what he said here : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-July/007136.html
I have a completely different opinion. IMHO the current OptDepends is totally _useless_: who checks them with -Qi or -Si?! Personally I have no clue which packages have optional dependencies. I agree with Dan, that optdepends shouldn't be put to install file (they will be "hidden" after package install), but I like that they are listed. I think pacman should automatically print them during package install. (Here we have formatting/localisation difficulties) This behaviour could be disabled (to satisfy Dan ;-). Bye