On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Xyne<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> 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?" > > Would this let you rebuild a package from the database alone? Is the > other info from the PKGBUILD along with the local source files included > somewhere? > > 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. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
