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Dieter@be

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pacman -Si does not show optdepends?

Hi, maybe I'm just misunderstanding something, or is something really wrong here?

dieter@dieter-ws ~ $pacman -Si rxvt-unicode
Repository     : extra
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  : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Download Size  : 2312.19 K
Installed Size : 5208.00 K
Packager       : Tobias Kieslich [ tobias <funnychar> archlinux <dot> org ]
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Sun 09 Nov 2008 04:17:29 AM CET
MD5 Sum        : d731dc0fe3958eac340fc8ad54a95e51
Description    : an unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator (urxvt)

dieter@dieter-ws ~ $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 : 5208.00 K
Packager       : Tobias Kieslich [ tobias <funnychar> archlinux <dot> org ]
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Sun 09 Nov 2008 04:17:29 AM CET
Install Date   : Mon 10 Nov 2008 10:33:28 AM CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description    : an unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator (urxvt)

dieter@dieter-ws ~ $egrep ^'pkgver|pkgrel|optdepend' /var/abs/extra/rxvt-unicode/PKGBUILD
pkgver=9.06
pkgrel=1
optdepends=('perl: lots of utilities' 'gtk-perl: to use the urxvt-tabbed')

Also at http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/r … iew=markup, the optdepends are there.

Why not in pacman -Ss output?

edit: just noticed the package gtk-perl does not exist, gtk2-perl exists though, maybe it has something to do with that?

Last edited by Dieter@be (2008-11-21 17:33:10)

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Daenyth

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Re: pacman -Si does not show optdepends?

I think that the repo.db.tar.gz file does not hold the optdepends information, as pacman -S has no method for interacting with it aside from -Si

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