[arch-projects] [devtools] [PATCH] Remove finddeps tool

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 05/06/19 at 12:28pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-projects wrote:
> On 5/6/19 12:10 PM, Emil Velikov via arch-projects wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 15:10, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl>
> >>
> >> finddeps depends on a no longer existing ABS tree. This data can also be
> >> queried via archweb.
> >> ---
> > Out of curiosity:
> > AFAICT all the information is already in the local DB, so
> > theoretically pacman can present this.
> > Yet I cannot find anything in the manual. Is the feature missing, has
> > it been proposed and rejected before?
> 
> pacman -Sii pkgname => Required By
> 
> Does not cover makedepends (these do exist in the syncdb but won't be
> properly exposed to libalpm until the next pacman release).
> 
> Does not cover packages that have not been built yet.

Ah true, consider this patch dropped.
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