On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:48:37PM -0500, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:
After a lil thinking, I agree that this doesn't belong in pacman.
i think the bigger problem is that the file list for all pkgs is quite big (no, i haven't made a test on the size, just guessing).
I also feel this is an important tool people should have offline.
do you have a mirror on your own computer? if not, searching offline is not so important. (i think the bigger benefit is that you could search from command-line. - which can be handy when you don't want to suck with elinks and you don't have x.)
findpkgfile -y # download filelists from some given mirror
from where? if the filelist database is outdated, it makes no sense, so if it's not supported by the maintainers of the give repo keeping it up to date is quite problematic imho. - VMiklos