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

[Loui Chang]

On Thu 02 Jul 2009 01:29 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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...

Hmm. It probably shouldn't be in base, but it should be available on the
install CD.