On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:34:15 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > Is there a better way to handle optional dependencies than > > just manually creating a list and checking it against the current > > installed packages to see if you need to install them before > > issuing the sync command and having some of the packages > > reinstalled? > > I can think of one: just don't install those packages at all until > you need them! > > DR i use 2 custom bash functions. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59385 There are some rough plans to someday improve optdeps support in pacman itself though :) See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_OptDepends Dieter
