Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] add pkgbase to package and database

Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Hi,

this simple addition makes it easy to implement split package support in our db-scripts.

But it might be a quite useful information anyway and thus not Arch related.

This change I am 50/50 on. pkgbase was supposed to be purely informational when splitting packages and it is entirely optional to specify when splitting packages (as pkgname[0] is used as a backup). However, I see that could be useful... Allan