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

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this simple addition makes it easy to implement split package support in our 
> db-scripts. 
>
> But it might be a quite useful information anyway and thus not Arch related.
>   

This change I am 50/50 on.  pkgbase was supposed to be purely 
informational when splitting packages and it is entirely optional to 
specify when splitting packages (as pkgname[0] is used as a backup).  
However, I see that could be useful...

Allan