On 11/07/18 03:58, Dave Reisner wrote: > This introduces code which has long been maintained at: > > https://github.com/falconindy/expac > >>From the README: > > expac is a data extraction tool for alpm databases. It features > printf-like flexibility and aims to be used as a simple tool for other > pacman based utilities which don't link against the library. It uses > pacman.conf as a config file for locating and loading your local and > sync databases.
Where are the plans to use this in the pacman codebase? I assume use in makepkg? I need such a justification given we just booted out every other utility except pacman-conf, which is used in several of our tools (bash/zsh completion, pacman-key, pacman-db-upgrade) and removed many bugs. The only place I know where it will be "useful" is replacing the awk statement for generating .BUILDINFO in makepkg. But that is not fixing a bug. A
