[arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 18:13:54 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>   
>> The resultsing db files are quite small: 20 KB for core and 320 KB for
>> extra.
>>     
>
> I have uploaded some example files to 
> http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/extra.links.tar.gz (also for core, 
> community and testing)
>   

You have given the links for every file examined.  Do we need that much 
information?  Is there use beyond a global list for the package?  That 
would also have the advantage of simplifying the format (no need for % 
symbols) which would simplify writing clients to generate rebuild lists 
or integrity checks etc.

Allan