18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
9:45 p.m.
On 10/18/06, Jason Chu
This is actually a superior idea IMO, and could be extended infinitely (to python, et al) and not require a complex plugin system in pacman to do this.
This is one of the reasons I wrote pacbuild... too bad it's still not done... While the actual building is only one part of this, you'd need something if it was extended to all packages.
eww. I looked at python, and while the xmlrpc interface to Pypi is cake, as far as getting information, and the download urls list 'kind' by distutils, eggs, etc etc, there is _no_ dependancy information anywhere, and according to some of the docs, it never will have dependancy info.