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pelle.k

Member

From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Recommends, Enhances in pacman?

If one could make use of maybe the keyword recommend, and/or enhances for dependencies which are not needed but may be used, such as libvisual for amarok (recommend?), or php-cgi for lighttpd (enhances?).
A brief description to each enchance/recommend as to why it might be a good idea to install these "extra" packages as well would be great as well.

You could list "recommends" or "enchances" of installed packages, with description (instead of that "echo" note in the .install script).

To find out what extras (and why they are useful) you can install, with amarok already installed;
Pacman -Q --list-recommends amarok

or to search a package + it's enhances;
pacman -Ss --list-enhances lighttpd

install package with enhances;
pacman -S --with-enhances lighttpd

What do you think about this "feature"?

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You must first see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences.
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toofishes

Developer

From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Recommends, Enhances in pacman?

See Flyspray:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6626

pelle.k

Member

From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Recommends, Enhances in pacman?

great! thanks toofishes!

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"Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.
You must first see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences.
They will represent the boundaries of your experience."
SETH / Jane Roberts