On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Allan McRae<al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Seeing the numbers you provided in the other email and the advantages > indicated here, I am now fine with including this in the pacman-db. It > would be quite useful for my rebuild order script which currently misses > makedepends....
To further rationalize, it also helps answer the question "How was this package built?" _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list pacman-dev@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev