[arch-general] Handling optional dependencies with pacman?

[Guilherme M. Nogueira]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
>        So I then do:
>
> for i in gutenprint libwebkit poppler-glib alsa-lib cinepaint java-runtime
> libcups gconf nss pstoedit; do pacman -Q $i; done
>

I would go for:

pacman --asdeps --needed gutenprint libwebkit poppler-glib alsa-lib
cinepaint java-runtime
libcups gconf nss pstoedit

--asdeps will install the packages as dependencies
--needed will prevent pacman from reinstalling up-to-date packages

as for the wrapper, I don't know



Guilherme/Nirev


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