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

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am Sonntag 14 Juni 2009 10:28:00 schrieb Allan McRae:
> 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.

I am not sure myselfM; that's why I brought it up here.

Of course this information is completely useless for user and just wastes 
space. But here I wonder if such a few bytes more really matter.

On the other side this is really usefull if you write tools for packagers. The 
advantage of retreiving the information from the package/db over grepping the 
ABS tree is:
* it does not depend on Arch
* there is no need to check out the complete tree
* tools can use a unified way to access all kinds of deps

So, only a very limited group will benefit from this and if all others will 
have disadvantages we should probably drop the idea.

-- 

Pierre Schmitz


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