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

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> 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.
>   

Seeing the numbers you provided in the other email and the advantages 
indicated here, I am now fine with including this in the pacman-db.  It 
would be quite useful for my rebuild order script which currently misses 
makedepends....

Allan