diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 81b43f2..4e11e3e 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Installing prt-get
 ------------------
 Installing prt-get is just a matter of
-./configure 
-make 
-make install
+
+meson setup bld --prefix=/usr
+cd bld && meson compile
+meson install
diff --git a/src/package.cpp b/src/package.cpp
index ce484ac..1e8bbad 100644
--- a/src/package.cpp
+++ b/src/package.cpp
@@ -213,50 +213,16 @@ void Package::load() const
 
                     StringHelper::replaceAll( softdeps, " ", "," );
                     StringHelper::replaceAll( softdeps, ",,", "," );
+                    StringHelper::replaceAll( softdeps, "(", "" );
+                    StringHelper::replaceAll( softdeps, ")", "" );
 
-                    // TODO: decide which one to use
-#if 0
-                    // remove commented out packages
-                    list<string> softDepList = StringHelper::split( softdeps, ',' );
-                    list<string>::iterator it = deps.begin();
-                    for ( ; it != softDepList.end(); ++it ) {
-                        if ( (*it)[0] == '#' ) {
-                            cerr << "Commented dep: " << *it << endl;
-                        } else {
-                            if ( it != softDepsList.begin() ) {
-                                m_data->optionals += ",";
-                            }
-                            m_data->optionals += *it;
-                        }
-                    }
-#else
                     m_data->optionals = softdeps;
-#endif
                 } else if ( startsWithNoCase( line, "dep" ) ) {
                     string depends = stripWhiteSpace( getValue( line, ':' ) );
 
                     StringHelper::replaceAll( depends, " ", "," );
                     StringHelper::replaceAll( depends, ",,", "," );
-
-                    // TODO: decide which one to use
-#if 0
-                    // remove commented out packages
-                    list<string> deps = StringHelper::split( depends, ',' );
-                    list<string>::iterator it = deps.begin();
-                    for ( ; it != deps.end(); ++it ) {
-                        if ( (*it)[0] == '#' ) {
-                            cerr << "Commented dep: " << *it << endl;
-                        } else {
-                            if ( it != deps.begin() ) {
-                                m_data->depends += ",";
-                            }
-                            m_data->depends += *it;
-                        }
-                    }
-#else
                     m_data->depends = depends;
-#endif
-
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/prtget.cpp b/src/prtget.cpp
index a11a639..bba5d8c 100644
--- a/src/prtget.cpp
+++ b/src/prtget.cpp
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ PrtGet::PrtGet( const ArgParser* parser )
     m_pkgDB = new PkgDB(m_parser->installRoot());
     readConfig();
 
-    m_useRegex = m_config->useRegex() || m_parser->useRegex();
-    m_followSoftdeps = m_config->followSoftdeps() || m_parser->followSoftdeps();
+    m_useRegex = ( m_config->useRegex() || m_parser->useRegex() );
+    m_followSoftdeps = ( m_config->followSoftdeps() || m_parser->followSoftdeps() );
 }
 
 /*! destruct PrtGet object */
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ void PrtGet::printf()
     assertExactArgCount(1);
 
     initRepo();
-    string filter = m_parser->useRegex() ? "." : "*";
+    string filter = m_useRegex ? ".*" : "*";
     if ( m_parser->hasFilter() ) {
         filter = m_parser->filter();
     }