[arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 10:30:02 EDT 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joker-jar <jokerjar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments to the packages in
> pacman. For example, sometimes you need to install packages as a optional
> or makedepend. I always do it with --as-deps key. Later, when you run
> "pacman -Qdt" to see and cleanup orphan packages you can't distinguish
> really orphan packages and packages installed via the reasons,
> describedabove. In
> this case comments to the packages could be very useful. Sorry fo my
> english :)

You should open a task in the bugtracker if there's no such request already.


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