[Solved] Keep some makedepends as explicitly installed

Gen2ly · 2009-11-04 16:46:54

I'm pretty sure there is a thread here in the forums about this but for the heck of me I couldn't find it. I'd like to keep some makedepends as always installed. I always find myself reinstalling cmake, subversion, automoc. It's not a big deal really but I use them enough that it be nice if they actually stayed installed. Trying 'pacman -S --asexplicit' doesn't work as I think it is for packages that are dependencies and not makedependencies. Is there a way to do this short of say, writing a new pkgbuild that will make them dependencies?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-11-04 18:39:13)

Xyne · 2009-11-04 16:55:47

"makedepends" are not special so you should be able to install them explicitly (e.g. "pacman -S cmake" when cmake isn't installed, "pacman -S --asexplicit cmake" when it already is). You could just leave them installed as orphaned dependencies as well when building a package by not including the "-r" option, e.g. "makepkg -si".

Gen2ly · 2009-11-04 18:22:47

Ah... Oyyyyy.

I got it figured out. I got a frontend that I use for package management that utilizes both pacman and yaourt. In 'case...; * ) ' I had directed it to 'yaourt "$@"'. I had recalled that it was directed to pacman, but meh... so apparently yaourt doesn't understand the '--asexplicit' flag yet. Error between chair and keyboard.

Thanks Xyne.

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-11-04 18:26:57)

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#1 2009-11-04 16:46:54

[Solved] Keep some makedepends as explicitly installed

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Re: [Solved] Keep some makedepends as explicitly installed

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Re: [Solved] Keep some makedepends as explicitly installed

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