On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:19 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 2/21/20 4:22 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > I suspect that paccheck's recursive option is unneeded. > > I don't understand how you could possibly think so? The recursive option > plainly makes it *recursive*, i.e. it lists the uninstalled optdepends > for all your dependencies. This is quite important, for example, if you > are using a program named "epiphany" which does HTML rendering via > webkit2gtk and you wish to know why it doesn't play media. The > --recursive flag will go through all the dependencies and show that > *epiphany* is not playing media because *webkit2gtk* is missing its > optional dependencies on gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad. Good point!
