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

[Allan McRae]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Xyne wrote:
>>> Cool....   but something is slightly wrong there:
>>>
>>> libburn - optional for:
>>>   brasero: alternative back-end
>>>   bzip2: alternative back-end
>>>
>>> bzip2 probably does not have a libbrun backend :)
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>     
>>
>> I don't know how that happened (haven't been able to reproduce the
>> error here). I did find some other bugs though so maybe that one was
>> fixed indirectly. I've attached a new version. If it still lies, send
>> me the output of "pacman -Qi".
>>   
>
> Works fine now.  Thanks.

As an aside, what this has made me realize is that the style of 
optdepends specification varies a bit within the packages our repos 
(some do not even use ":"'s to separate the package name from the 
description).  If they are going to become more than informational, this 
needs to become more standardized.  Maybe makepkg needs to add a check 
on the style.

Allan