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

[Chris Sakalis]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
<karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hello,
just a suggestion. Wouldn't tracking which packages where installed as
optional dependencies be better? There could be a --as-optdeps option
for example.

--Chris Sakalis