Am Sonntag 14 Juni 2009 10:28:00 schrieb Allan McRae: > I'm not really a fan of this as it fills the PKGINFO file and pacman DB > with info that is really not needed. At the moment you can simply grep > the ABS tree to check for depends/makedepends.
I am not sure myselfM; that's why I brought it up here. Of course this information is completely useless for user and just wastes space. But here I wonder if such a few bytes more really matter. On the other side this is really usefull if you write tools for packagers. The advantage of retreiving the information from the package/db over grepping the ABS tree is: * it does not depend on Arch * there is no need to check out the complete tree * tools can use a unified way to access all kinds of deps So, only a very limited group will benefit from this and if all others will have disadvantages we should probably drop the idea. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber [email protected] WWW http://www.archlinux.de _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
