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....
Allan
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