FS#59253 - [pacman] Add pacman-contrib as an optional dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Steve M (smmalis37) - Friday, 06 July 2018, 19:16 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 07 July 2018, 01:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Doing this could help with the discoverability of pacman-contrib, especially given that its scripts used to be contained in the pacman package.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 07 July 2018, 01:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  This makes no sense
Comment by Daniel M. Capella (polyzen) - Friday, 06 July 2018, 20:04 GMT
Installing pacman-contrib does not "provide additional features"[] to pacman. This would belong in an array of "suggested" packages, but that is not (yet?) available.

[]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#optdepends

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