Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: new virtual metadata variable to list combined deps

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:50 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: So now I was wondering a) if I'm the only one who finds this feature useful and b) if adding it at the dbapi level (in dbapi.aux_get) would be considered a good idea, so it could be used by other tools? Not sure if it would fit better in

[gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: new virtual metadata variable to list combined deps

2006-10-26 Thread Marius Mauch
Ok, I have to admit the subject may be a bit confusing, so let me get the motivation first: Often people want to know the dependencies of a package. Not much of a problem when they know how to use auxget or the portageq metadata commands. However these all work on the specific DEPEND, RDEPEND and

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFC: new virtual metadata variable to list combined deps

2006-10-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: So now I was wondering a) if I'm the only one who finds this feature useful and b) if adding it at the dbapi level (in dbapi.aux_get) would be considered a good idea, so it could be used by other tools? I think of aux_get as a