On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" <ht990332@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. > Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or > plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra > dependencies (let's call them libsomething) marked as optdepends. > so on installation pacman will say something: > optional dependency: libsomething needed for package1 plugins to work. > > How about instead those extra binary files or plugins are split into > another package called package1-plugins and have libsomething as plain > dependency? > Then on package1 installation, pacman should say something like: > Recommended packages: package1-plugins for blah blah functionality. This is known as 'debian'. I think it's overkill and offers no practical benefit.
