[pacman-dev] wanted: script to list uninstalled optdepends and packages that need them

[Allan McRae]

Hi all,

I had a thought today that a script to list package that are optdepends 
but not installed could be quite useful...  I have not written one, but 
thought it would be good for pacman-contrib if someone wanted to contribute.

Example output:

tk - optional for:
    ruby - for Ruby/TK
    python - for IDLE, pynche and modulator
fakeroot - optional for:
    pacman - for makepkg usage as normal user

So get script writing!  Preferably in bash or perl (which the current 
scripts use).

Allan