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

[vlad]

Hi,
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:54:30PM +0200, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> > Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> > > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as
> > follows.
> > <snip>
> > 
> > I think some of this would be solved if/when we implement this:
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends
> 
> Thanks Allan. this is a good solution especially "optdepends can be
> removed with -Rs" and  "optdepends are not orphans unless a flag is
> specified".
> Thank you :)

Or install optdepende with the "--asdeps" flag.

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