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

[Allan McRae]

Loui Chang wrote:
> On Wed 01 Jul 2009 09:48 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Allan McRae schrieb:
>>>       
>>>>>> For example:
>>>>>> http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core.badfhs.txt
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Where does that come from? It's not in any package I know of.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> rp-pppoe-3.10-1/files:etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so
>>>>         
>>> That is stupid. ppp plugins are supposed to be in /usr/lib/pppd/$VERSION and
>>> the ppp package already contains the rp-pppoe plugin. Why does rp-pppoe
>>> install it again? Why do we even need rp-pppoe?
>>>       
>> Good question - does anyone actually use it?
>>     
>
> http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics
> Eh. 72% of pkgstats users do.
>   

No, 28% know they don't want it even though it is in "base".  Slightly 
different...

Allan