On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:29 +1100, James Rayner wrote: > 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. There is a benefit. You quoted part of my email. Did you read the rest? It also better then downsteam "deciding" which goes to depends and which goes to "optdepends"
