On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:13:30AM -0800, Jason Chu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How useful is it to add optdepends in the repo DB? They aren't > > necessarily critical to a package's installation or operation. When the > > package is installed the user is informed about them anyways. That's the > > only time I can think of that optdepends become useful. > > What about pacman -Si?
Yeah I don't understand how it's really useful beyond a sense of "Oh neat those are the optdepends". I can understand if someone was worried of a package pulling in too many dependencies and wanted to see before installing. Optdepends are optional though. The user doesn't need to install them.
