[arch-general] Package file lists?

[David Rosenstrauch]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>> Used to be that when viewing a package's info on the Arch web site that
>>> there was a link to click on that would take you to a page that would list
>>> the files contained in that package.  (i.e., equivalent to the output of
>>> "pacman -Ql <package>")  Seems like that functionality is gone now though.
>>>
>>> Just wondering if there was any particular reason why it was removed, and
>>> if there were any plans to bring it back.  I used to find it a very handy
>>> tool, and it would be great to have it again.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> DR
>> Anybody?  Beuller?  Beuller?  :-)
> 
> We changed the way the backend worked and parsed information. Due to
> this, it made producing file lists very time consuming. That was the
> only downside for all the many many upsides of changing it that way.
> 
> We could still save this data, especially considering Pierre wrote a
> script to generate file lists in the repos themselves[1] but we
> haven't gotten around to it.
> 
> 1: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/extra.files.tar.gz

It'd be nice to have, though not crucial.  It's helpful to be able to 
see the contents of a package without installing it.

DR