[pacman-dev] Future pacman development (3.2/4.0)

[VMiklos]

Hello,

Na Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:27:29PM -0700, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> pisal(a):
> Actually, the config parser SHOULD be in the frontend.

wrong. for example we have gfpm, a graphical frontend. having only a
signle parser in libpacman to parser the configured repos is great, and
i think all the users would be unhappy if they would have to always
update gfpm's config accordingly

> libalpm is a library. Libraries don't generally parse configs. They
> receive config values through the api, at run time.

really? just think of libsasl's /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf

> pacman is effectively a front end for libalpm. Thus, pacman should
> parse the pacman.conf config file.
> 
> There could certainly be a configuration parsing library, that
> front-ends can share, but it doesn't need to be tied into libalpm.
> That should just handle package management.

yes, of course. then please remove -ldownload from libalpm's LDFLAGS

thanks,
- VMiklos
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