On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote: > Xyne wrote: >>> >>> Note that all of these are easily done already... either grepping >>> through the ABS tree or using the rebuild scripts that I posted to the >>> arch-dev-public list. >>> >>> The only advantage I see of this is that instead of grepping through the >>> ABS tree (which may not be implemented for all users of pacman...), you can >>> grep through the pacman sync db. I see no reason for adding this to the >>> -S/Qi output as when it is important, it will be displayed in optdepends. >>> >> >> Considering that only a very few people will actually use this, is it >> really worth adding to the database of all users if it's already >> possible to do this with the abs tree? Won't most people who would use >> this already have the abs tree installed? > > Do not think of pacman as Arch specific. Can you currently get this info > easily for KDEmod? How about any of the other distros using pacman?
As a rather wild aside here... what would be the downside of sticking the entire PKGBUILD in the pacman DB? How much size would that add? _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
