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

[Xavier]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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).
>

If we implemented one of your suggestion for optdepends handling,
which is to display when an optdepends is installed or not, then it
should be very easy to do something of this kind, just using pacman
-Qi and grep :)