[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Mark already installed optional dependencies

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:18:12PM +0200, Arokux B. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is something going to happen with this patch? I think the feature it
> introduces is really useful. This was my first patch to pacman and
> I've spent quite some time to make it, so it's really discouraging to
> see buried in the mailing list.
> 
> Thanks
> Arokux
> 

And in my original reply to you, I pointed out that we already have a
patchset that deals with optdepends in a more complete way. I'll link it
again so that there's no confusion:

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-November/014772.html

And I'll also point you to roadmap in the wiki that mentions this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap

It's not that we're not interested in the feature. Rather, we are, but
we're more interested in the complete solution that the patchset
provides. A one-off that addresses a singular problem with alpm's
optdepends handling is not interesting given a more thorough
alternative. That said, it has a few problems which weren't addressed,
and the author no longer has interest (they're using Exherbo these
days).

If you're interested in seeing this merged, I suggest grabbing the
previous author's branch [1], rebasing the patchset, and addressing the
concerns that Dan raises in the ML thread that I linked above.

Cheers,
Dave

[1] https://github.com/moben/pacman