[aur-general] When to use optdepends (was: AUR package q -- newbie)

Markus Schaaf mschaaf at elaboris.de
Tue May 12 13:55:58 UTC 2020


> It's not really clear to me when to optdepend.

Comments welcome. My idea is to use optdepends for things the user may
want, but it's not obvious how to make them work, like a glue-library
the application needs to use another facility, e.g. gpgme to use gpg, or
ghostscript to produce PDF.


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