pactree: Request for `-o' to Show Optional Dependencies.

Johannes Löthberg johannes at kyriasis.com
Thu Aug 16 15:52:48 UTC 2018


Quoting Ralph Corderoy (2018-08-16 16:47:47)
> Investigating https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50751, that I also 
> suffered yesterday, I see that graphviz doesn't have gtk2 as an 
> optional dependency like the bug report claims.
> 

False.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/graphviz/
* gtk2 (optional) - gtk output plugin


> `pactree graphviz' only shows the dependents.  It would be nice if there
> was a `-o' option to treat optional dependencies as mandatory.  Perhaps
> they could be indicated differently in the diagram.
> 

Sounds potentially useful.  Patches would be welcome.


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