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

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:02 +0100, Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332 at gmail.com>
> 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 :)
> >
> 
> Your proposal is not stupid, it would indeed make the optdepends
> problems obsolete by getting rid of most of the optdepends, and
> provide cleaner packages and dependencies.
> Nagy had the same thought in a private discussion we had a while ago.
> 
> Of course then there is also an increased complexity of packaging with
> a lot of splitting and a much bigger number of packages.
> And with that example of pacman and rankmirrors, rankmirrors is a 190
> lines python script. I don't think it deserved a package on its own.
> Anyway for that specific example, some people were not happy about the
> python dependency and rewrote rankmirrors in bash.

pacman package may have been a bad example but you get the general idea.