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

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

Apparently my "similar to the following" text in man PKGBUILD was not enough. :(

I'd be fine with a check added to makepkg, although I never wanted to
get draconian about it (and I never meant for it to become
machine-parseable, but it seems I am in the minority there).

-Dan