Hello, That is a workaround for direct installations, but I would also have to use this flag every time I manually touch that package (like with a reinstall) and even every time I run `pacman -Syu`! Furthermore, if dmenu is pulled transitively for a random package you want to try, you have to provide that flag every time for that as well.
So basically I'd have to set `--assume-installed=dmenu` *every* *single* *time* I do anything with pacman to be sure nothing breaks. And in my opinion, "you can do this manually" is not really a good argument. One could argue that every package could be removed, as you could do it manually instead. Lastly, I don't really see what rule this package breaks. I can only imagine "usefulness", but as I said, it does provide usefulness to at least me and actually a couple of friends I know. On Fri, 5 Sept 2025 at 11:56, Robin Candau <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/3/25 10:18 AM, Chris Werner Rau wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I myself find it extremely useful as this package satisfies the `dmenu` > > dependency of other packages, the ones I'm using are clipmenu, rofi- > > randr and udiskie-dmenu-git. Without this package I would have to > > install the dmenu package without needing/using it. > > > > On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 09:44, <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > oech3 [1] filed a deletion request for rofi-dmenu [2]: > > > > Not useful. Symlink to /usr/local/bin/ > > > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oech3/ <https:// > > aur.archlinux.org/account/oech3/> > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rofi-dmenu/ <https:// > > aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rofi-dmenu/> > > > > Hi, > > This doesn't require a package, you can handle this via the > `--assume-installed` pacman flag. > > -- > Regards, > Robin Candau / Antiz >
