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FS#27319 - [syslinux] Aesthetic pacman "optional dependency" resolve issue

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by i336 (i336) - Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 04:09 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 07 March 2012, 09:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.5.4
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I just installed syslinux 4.04-2 and pacman printed the following at the end:

Optional dependencies for syslinux
perl-passwd-md5: For md5pass
perl-digest-sha1: For sha1pass
mtools: For mkdiskimage and syslinux
. ^^^^^^^^

Should pacman ignore optional dependency information for packages if one of the optional dependencies was the package being installed (or it is in the install queue)?

Additional info:
* pacman v4.0.0
* using i686 here at least, but I selected All since it likely applies to x86_64 too.


Steps to reproduce:
* Probably not easily producible; install syslinux without the dependencies above installed?...
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Wednesday, 07 March 2012, 09:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  5.04-4
Comment by i336 (i336) - Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 04:10 GMT
The ^^^^^ was supposed to sit underneath the "syslinux" bit, btw, heh
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 07 March 2012, 07:42 GMT
Wrong, mtools is needed for syslinux (command)
FAT support is already supported by extlinux (command).

Both command supports the same filesystems, the difference is that
syslinux (cmd) is used in unmounted filesystem, while extlinux (cmd) is for mounted filesystem.

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