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

[Thomas Bächler]

James Rayner schrieb:
>> 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'. 

That made me laugh.

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

Agreed. Just because we are now able to split packages, we should not 
overdo it like other distributions have.

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