[Slackbuilds-users] OPTIONAL field [was: qemu/spice-gtk and usbredir]

[Andreas Guldstrand]

... and then list them in order, showing their READMEs, asking the
user to confirm each of them (just as he needs to for regular
dependencies)

On 6 November 2016 at 14:40, Andreas Guldstrand
<andreas.guldstrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 November 2016 at 13:31, Erik Hanson <erik at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>> No. Discussions are fine, we've made changes based on public
>> discourse in the past. What appears before us is a handful of people
>> really want to write some tool that plows through optional deps
>> automatically. They don't want to read the README files, or maybe
>> they don't need to, but I feel it's a bad idea to let EVERYBODY off
>> the hook when it comes to the READMEs.
>
> I'm sorry, but there are only two tools where anyone has mentioned
> support for this field in this thread (unless I missed something), and
> those are sbotools and slackrepo, and for slackrepo it was explicitly
> stated that the author would in fact *not* add any kind of support for
> these fields, and I myself mentioned I could see adding support for it
> in sbotools. However, you seem to believe "adding support" would
> necessarily entail skipping READMEs, but as the current maintainer of
> sbotools I can tell you that that would be absolutely wrong.
> Currently, sbotools does allow you to skip reading README files, but
> then it turns off all dependency resolution for you.
>
> Adding support for an OPTIONAL field would not in any way change this.
> In fact, the way I envision adding support for this kind of thing goes
> like this:
>
> sboinstall <package-with-some-optional-deps>
> => <shows README>
> =>
> => This slackbuild contains optional dependencies.
> => Please read the README before continuing.
> => Would you also like to include some of them? [y/N]
> ...