[pacman-dev] What about managing optional dependencies?

Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino themolok.ml at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 11:19:55 EDT 2006


On 18:03 Thu 12 Oct     , Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> it may look like this in PKGBUILD:
>     optdepends=(pkgY "allows to use X")
>     optdepends=(pkgZ "adds ABCD feature")
> 
> and this in pacman output:
>     Optional dependencies:
>       pkgY - allows to use X
>       pkgZ - adds ABCD feature
> 
> [...]
> What do you think about this?

Yeah, I was thinking to something like that.

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Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino





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