[Slackbuilds-users] Dependency cleanup after package removal

[Fellype]

Em ter., 23 de jun. de 2020 às 22:33, Kyle Guinn <elyk03 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> On 6/23/20, Erich Ritz via SlackBuilds-users
> <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > On Jun 23, 2020, 5:27 AM, Fellype < fellype at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Just a comment/suggestion related to reverse deps:
> >
> > Then, it would be useful to have a field called "OPTIONAL" or
> > "USEDIFINSTALLED" in the .info files for cases like this.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Fellype
> >
> > Hi Fellype,
> >
> > The problem is everyone's list of optional deps they actually use will be
> > different. If you are using sbopkg or slackrepo (or other tools I'm not
> > familiar with), then you will have a list of your optional deps locally.
> > That's why the suggested solutions so far make use of this user-created
> > information.
> >
> > Erich
>
> The main purpose of putting these in an OPTIONAL variable is to assist
> with automated searching.  Nobody wants to look through the README to
> try to find these programmatically.

An OPTIONAL variable in the README instead of .info could help on it.

Fellype
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