FS#13695 - rxvt-unicode optdepends of this package are a joke?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Angel Velasquez (angvp) - Saturday, 07 March 2009, 22:22 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 01:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

[«root@granada ~ »] % LANG=C pacman -Qi rxvt-unicode
Name : rxvt-unicode
Version : 9.06-1
URL : http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gcc-libs libxft libxpm
Optional Deps : perl: lots of utilities
gtk-perl: to use the urxvt-tabbed
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 5492.00 K
Packager : AndyRTR_<andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sun Nov 9 17:12:45 2008
Install Date : Sat Mar 7 17:40:30 2009
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : an unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator (urxvt)

The first depend .. perl and the description is a joke, first perl means Practical Extraction and Report Language .. "lots of utilities" is NOT the right description.

The second depend..

[«root@granada ~ »] % LANG=C pacman -sS gtk-perl
[«root@granada ~ »] %

I have core, extra, community, and testing repo enabled .. even in aur this package doesn't exist.. maybe it was deleted or something.

Steps to reproduce:

Update the PKGBUILD and the package, IMHO optdepends should give "hints" to the user, not confuse him.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 01:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#12046 
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 08 March 2009, 00:53 GMT
I guess "lots of utilities" is simpler than listing all of them.

gtk-perl should be gtk2-perl. See  FS#12046 
Comment by Angel Velasquez (angvp) - Sunday, 08 March 2009, 05:09 GMT
perl != "lots of utilities" you can say something like "urxvt have powerful features coded in perl" or similar stuff but perl does not mean "lots of utilities"

Thanks
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 09 March 2009, 00:00 GMT
It isn't trying to give a description of perl- it is trying to give a description of what installing perl would add to this package.

If you want a description of perl, look at the perl package. Otherwise take a chill pill.

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