Re: [pacman-dev] pacman cold caches performance, too much stat()ing

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Nagy Gabor wrote:

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depends files are read in order to ensure that the upgraded package won't break any "old" dependencies.

Example: local foo requires bar=2.0 (which is installed) Then "pacman -S bar" is not allowed (if bar in sync has different version).

I see now, thanks! So if we somehow had an %RDEPENDS% field (reverse-dependencies) for every package in local that would not be necessary. I will see if this is doable during every install.

pacman used to do such a thing, but from my understanding it caused more issues than it solved so it was removed. Allan