Re: [pacman-dev] PacTrac was: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Testers Needed

matthias@archlinux.de wrote:

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2008/3/27, Nagy Gabor :

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Do we know something about its license or source code? Is this a native libalpm stuff or not?

No idea. I think there should be sources somewhere on faunos.com

Here is a link: http://viewvc.faunos.com/viewvc.cgi/src/pactrac/ License should be GPL2 (like the rest of Faun.

Funny. Either people think libalpm sucks so much than it's not even worth trying to use and improve, or writing bindings is too complicated and not worth it? Or a little of both. Seems like pacman3 is quite useless, when are we going back to pacman2? :) Or maybe it should just be directly written in a language where ppl could more easily write a gui (or other tools) in? Like python maybe. That way, anyone can write pacman related tools without reinventing the wheel every single time. Seeing all these tools either calling pacman directly, or redoing all the work themselves by parsing the config and metainfo files make me cry.