On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:06, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 >> And finally, yes, there are optdeps, but pacman don't handle them as >> nicely it handles obligatory dependencies. If I install an optdep as >> an explicit installed package, when I uninstall the other package, >> the optdep will stay in my system. If I install it as a dependency, >> pacman will list it as an unnecessary dependency when I run pacman >> -Qdt. > > Well, this is a point which I'm missing, too, on Arch. This should > indeed be fixed in pacman. > > Heiko > There are a few bugs on the tracker and some stuff on the wiki about planned improvements. I think most people like that idea of supporting it, someone just has to code it in.
