FS#12448 - Display of opt depends

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Scott H (stonecrest) - Sunday, 14 December 2008, 15:29 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:40 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When installing a package (like pacman), all optional dependencies are displayed. This presumably causes many users to issue a number of pacman -Q operations to verify that they have the optional deps installed that they wanted. For some packages, I'm pretty damn sure I have the opt depends installed but I still check them on pretty much every upgrade to make sure I haven't accidentally removed them.

Perhaps it might be a better idea to list only the optional deps that aren't installed? Or, a more explicit path would be to list all opt depends but somehow flag those that are already installed.
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Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Monday, 27 July 2009, 13:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  as said in the comments, this has been improved.
otherwise, flagging installed optdepends is also mentioned here : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User :Allan/Pacman_OptDepends
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 14 December 2008, 19:23 GMT
I think this patch (in GIT) already addresses the issue:
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=9dbe5c9d1ee5fb00f25515dfb5a2feb3ae6ebd59
Comment by Scott H (stonecrest) - Sunday, 14 December 2008, 21:10 GMT
Nice.. I'm not sure it would be my top choice for implementation, but it should cut down on the problem I was describing so you can go ahead and close this FR, it's much better than the previous default.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 22:26 GMT
Indeed, it cuts down the problem, but it is not incompatible with the suggestions proposed here. Especially this one could still be considered in my opinion :
* flag those that are already installed

The code clutter added by this should be low enough. So I consider this as a feature request with low importance, which can remain open to let interested people or people who want to start playing with pacman code the opportunity to implement it.

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