On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Loui Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Well it doesn't much matter, because the dbs are all regenerated. Useful or not, there they are.
