On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Bigby James <bigby.james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: >> On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on installed packages on pacman. e.g. why did you install them. But that's another thread >> > > No offense, but if you need to ask yourself why you installed something *after* > you installed it you almost certainly never needed it in the first place, and if > you need the package manager to *tell you* why you installed it you're being > careless. If you're installing something just to try it out then do so, and if > you don't care for it then uninstall it right away. If you're wondering what use > you might have thought you had for that package some time after installing it, > the package description should give you some clue. What you're suggesting is > that someone write extra code for a feature that encourages carelessness and > laziness. It stands to reason that if an explicitly installed package is sitting > on your system and it isn't a dependency, and you can't recall putting it to > use, it can be removed. makedeps of AUR packages, for one. Or optdeps.
