[pacman-dev] optdepends and pacman -Qdt

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:35 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)
<techlivezheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> When packages listed in a package's 'optdepeds' field are installed
> using `--asdeps` option, as long as the package which list these
> packages as 'optdepends' exists, these packages should not be listed
> bu `pacman -Qdt`.

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163781 for some ways to
work around this until optdepends handling is fully implemented in
pacman.