Colin Watson left as an exercise for the reader: > (https://peps.python.org/pep-0508/#extras): effectively groups of > additional dependencies to enable some kind of feature that you can opt > into if you need that feature, rather than having to pick from an > undifferentiated pile of Recommends, or do things like devscripts does
the "undifferentiated" feels like it's doing some lifting here. arch's yay (and presumably other tools in the pacman family) shows a short justification for each optdepends[0] entry (when such information is provided). it would require not just control file changes but also UI work, of course. --nick [0] https://man.archlinux.org/man/PKGBUILD.5 -- nick black -=- https://nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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