[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add makedepends to package and database

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Jun 14 04:28:00 EDT 2009


Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be nice to have information about makedepnds available in 
> each pacakge and the pacakge database. Think about rebuilds (statically 
> linked) or the question if a certain package can be (re)moved.
>   

I'm not really a fan of this as it fills the PKGINFO file and pacman DB 
with info that is really not needed.  At the moment you can simply grep 
the ABS tree to check for depends/makedepends. 

Allan





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