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

[Joker-jar]

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

Do not forget about makedepends. Often you can't remember for what package
you install something in the orphans list as makedepend, or it's just
orphan. By the way, it would be nice to know the origin of real orphans
(for example, who depend on them earlier).

2012/8/17 Marek Otahal <markotahal at gmail.com>

> Hi!
> that is a great idea.
>
> On Thursday 16 of August 2012 18:07:40 Chris Sakalis wrote:
> > 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.
> I believe I've seen the issue somewhere on forums or bug tracker, can't
> find it now though.
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53788 metapax on aur seems it
> might do the job, but the
> download link is dead now..
> >
> > 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.
> I agree, my idea was:
> pacman -S --create-meta name [description] dependency[-version] [dep2 ...]
>
> $ pacman -S --create-meta myproject pkg1 pkg2-1.3
>
> which would call makepkg and create package named myproject with only
> pkgname=myproject
> pkgdesc="blah"
> depends=('pkg1','pkg2<=1.3')
>
>
> Usecase:
> *nice handling of optdepends for packages you install
> *handling of temporal projects: eg for school I work on several projects
> at once,
> say for music-work i need midi player, notation visualizer, mp32midi
> parser etc...all these
> have to be installed explicitly nowadays and after a month I don't know
> whatnot have been installed for the
> project and can be removed now.
> *cleaner system and explicitely installed pkgs: eg for a new cellphone,
> one wants a driver, filemanager, gps app etc -
> that all could be just in a my-android metapkg.
>
> Additional note:  A feature would be
> pacman -S my-meta-pkg --add dep3
> pacman -S my-meta-pkg --remove dep2
>
>
> >
> > --Chris Sakalis
> Will you set up the feature request on bugtracker or should I?
>
> Have a nice day, Mark
>
> --
>
> Marek Otahal :o)
>