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

[Allan McRae]

vlad wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but then they are orphans and do not associate with the package 
that "needs" them.