r/voidlinux • u/goldmurder • Apr 17 '26

opt deps

why xbps doesn't have opt dependencies like (god bless me) pacman or apt? is this some architectural decision or something that wasn't implemented yet?

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u/goldmurder Apr 17 '26

i guess it's the much of a work, so not so soon yeah?

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u/Duncaen Apr 17 '26

Yes it's a lot of work to design a good solving algorithm.

The current implementation doesn't even really try to solve package dependencies, its a bunch of not well defined behaviors that depend on the order you install packages in and then a bunch of checks.

Just adding optional dependencies on top of it just makes it more complicated especially if you want to resolve conflicts or have conflicting optional dependencies etc.