Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

  • Spectacle8011A
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    10 months ago

    What I want to do is install all of these Optional Dependencies that are part of the wine-staging package without specifying every one of them:

    Optional Deps   : giflib
                      lib32-giflib
                      gnutls
                      lib32-gnutls
                      v4l-utils
                      lib32-v4l-utils
                      libpulse
                      lib32-libpulse
                      alsa-plugins
                      lib32-alsa-plugins
                      alsa-lib
                      lib32-alsa-lib
                      libxcomposite
                      lib32-libxcomposite
                      libxinerama
                      lib32-libxinerama
                      opencl-icd-loader
                      lib32-opencl-icd-loader
                      libva
                      lib32-libva
                      gtk3
                      lib32-gtk3
                      gst-plugins-base-libs
                      lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs
                      vulkan-icd-loader
                      lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
                      sdl2
                      lib32-sdl2
                      sane
                      libgphoto2
                      ffmpeg
                      cups
                      samba
                      dosbox
    

    --asdeps doesn’t seem to do that. apt has --install-recommended, I think, or something similar. And for all the bad things I could say about apt, that’s a nice feature.

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      I think the reason that doesn’t exist is that it doesn’t make sense to install all of them usually. In this case, unless you have a scanner, you won’t want sane, if you don’t have a printer, you won’t want cups, I guess samba might be for AD or SMB network shares which many also don’t use, v4l is for webcams, it’s probably very rare to use opencl inside of wine, and I don’t even know what wine uses dosbox for. And so on. These are optional dependencies for a reason.

      –asdeps installs a package as “not explicitly installed”, so it’ll be removed again when uninstalling unneeded packages. So yeah, that’s something else.

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        10 months ago

        In this case, many of these dependencies are required for a lot of games to work properly in Wine. Dosbox is used as an emulation tool. I don’t know of another package manager that doesn’t give you an option to install all of the optional dependencies.