Hi! that is a great idea. On Thursday 16 of August 2012 18:07:40 Chris Sakalis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz > <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joker-jar <jokerjar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments to the packages in > >> pacman. For example, sometimes you need to install packages as a optional > >> or makedepend. I always do it with --as-deps key. Later, when you run > >> "pacman -Qdt" to see and cleanup orphan packages you can't distinguish > >> really orphan packages and packages installed via the reasons, > >> describedabove. In > >> this case comments to the packages could be very useful. Sorry fo my > >> english :) > > > > You should open a task in the bugtracker if there's no such request already. I believe I've seen the issue somewhere on forums or bug tracker, can't find it now though. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53788 metapax on aur seems it might do the job, but the download link is dead now.. > > Hello, > just a suggestion. Wouldn't tracking which packages where installed as > optional dependencies be better? There could be a --as-optdeps option > for example. I agree, my idea was: pacman -S --create-meta name [description] dependency[-version] [dep2 ...] $ pacman -S --create-meta myproject pkg1 pkg2-1.3 which would call makepkg and create package named myproject with only pkgname=myproject pkgdesc="blah" depends=('pkg1','pkg2<=1.3') Usecase: *nice handling of optdepends for packages you install *handling of temporal projects: eg for school I work on several projects at once, say for music-work i need midi player, notation visualizer, mp32midi parser etc...all these have to be installed explicitly nowadays and after a month I don't know whatnot have been installed for the project and can be removed now. *cleaner system and explicitely installed pkgs: eg for a new cellphone, one wants a driver, filemanager, gps app etc - that all could be just in a my-android metapkg. Additional note: A feature would be pacman -S my-meta-pkg --add dep3 pacman -S my-meta-pkg --remove dep2 > > --Chris Sakalis Will you set up the feature request on bugtracker or should I? Have a nice day, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)
