[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/5] Two memleak fixes in pacman.

[Nagy Gabor]

> Obviously I'll apply this. However, from a design standpoint, I really
> wish we never had to call alpm_list_free() from the frontend on
> anything returned by the library. When we start having to do that, it
> leads to double frees and all sorts of other fun stuff.

I simply don't understand this. All known libraries _must_ use this when they
_compute_ something on request. The library simply doesn't know if the result is
still needed by the caller (front-end) or not. You may say we could implement
whatprovides_ready, but this is just equivalent with list_free (and ugly).
The main problem here, that we have no libalpm documentation where we could
define for front-ends which results should be freed and which should not.

Bye, ngaba


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