Re: [pacman-dev] do we need requiredby?

On Nov 14, 2007 6:08 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:

We (anyone want to volunteer) also need to make a tool to remove requiredby entries.

I was going to python it up... it's an easy file to parse and rewrite, probably like 20 lines

I took an initial stab at it using libalpm, then I realized we have no explicit mechanism to tell the backend to write to the DB. Does this sound like something we should expose, or is it too low level?

I'd say no. There's a reason why we don't have mutators for package structures (front ends shouldn't be modifying that data).