[arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

[James Rayner]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" <ht990332 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows.
> Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or
> plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra
> dependencies (let's call them libsomething) marked as optdepends.
> so on installation pacman will say something:
> optional dependency: libsomething needed for package1 plugins to work.
> 
> How about instead those extra binary files or plugins are split into
> another package called package1-plugins and have libsomething as plain
> dependency?
> Then on package1 installation, pacman should say something like:
> Recommended packages: package1-plugins for blah blah functionality.

This is known as 'debian'. 

I think it's overkill and offers no practical benefit.