On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Xyne<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Can someone give some concrete examples of how this could be useful in >> > the absence of the other packaging information and who would be likely >> > to use this? >> >> Maybe "built" was too strong of a word... what I was trying to say: >> You can see, somewhat, what was enabled at build time, to see what >> things support, in some cases. > > Sorry if it's a noobish question, but can you give some example of when > that info might be useful? I can't think of anything practical at the > moment that would rely on knowing the makedepends but not the rest of > it, at least not in the pacman database.
I'm not thinking in terms of scripting and the like, I'm thinking in terms of information. Like... "oh this needed mysql-libs to build, so maybe it has mysql support" _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
