On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Xyne<xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
Can someone give some concrete examples of how this could be useful in the absence of the other packaging information and who would be likely to use this?
Maybe "built" was too strong of a word... what I was trying to say: You can see, somewhat, what was enabled at build time, to see what things support, in some cases.
Sorry if it's a noobish question, but can you give some example of when that info might be useful? I can't think of anything practical at the moment that would rely on knowing the makedepends but not the rest of it, at least not in the pacman database.
I'm not thinking in terms of scripting and the like, I'm thinking in terms of information. Like... "oh this needed mysql-libs to build, so maybe it has mysql support"