On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:41:57PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > Coincidentally I was confused by this yesterday. See > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59374 > > > > Loui, imho if it doesn't "cost" anything to show more info about a package > > without needing to install it, it can be nothing but useful, even if it's > > for just a few users/use cases. > > > > > Never mind about '-Ss'.. > > Btw: I have a use case: If the user has optdeps installed for a package, and > he removes that package, he will probably want to check if he installed any > optdepends that can be removed as well. You can/should only remove optdeps > after successfully removing the main package, eg you need pacman -Si. (okay > you could do pacman -Qi, 'remember' the optdepends, remove, and then check > if the optdepends are on your system , but -Si is more KISS :-)
Hah not really. You should be able to remove optdepends at any time. So you can always -Qi and remove them before the main package. Otherwise, how would you install the main package without the optdepends? It would be handy if pacman printed installed optdepends on package removal, but that's another bit of feature creep I'm not so sure of. Though as Dan said, this info is nice for the web.
