On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
This could be very useful to show on the web frontend as well, as we load all of this data out of the pacman DB. -Dan
