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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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....

To further rationalize, it also helps answer the question "How was
this package built?"