[pacman-dev] Frugalware changes merged.

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/19/06, VMiklos <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:11:54PM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On a personal note, I don't have a problem with "mostly null"
> > parameters - many ANSI C and POSIX functions are invoked this way.
> > This would be much easier if it were C++ (note: I'm being snarky, I
> > prefer C++ by leaps and bounds over C - C++ would shrik libalpm nearly
> > in half... but that's not my decision, heh). 8)
>
> my argument here is having an extra parameter for a public function that
> is used only internally. a logical problem

It appears that pacman only ever uses db_register to register the
local db.  This seems like something which should be handled
internally... regardless, I added the function.