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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Xyne<xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
>> > Can someone give some concrete examples of how this could be useful in
>> > the absence of the other packaging information and who would be likely
>> > to use this?
>>
>> Maybe "built" was too strong of a word... what I was trying to say:
>> You can see, somewhat, what was enabled at build time, to see what
>> things support, in some cases.
>
> Sorry if it's a noobish question, but can you give some example of when
> that info might be useful? I can't think of anything practical at the
> moment that would rely on knowing the makedepends but not the rest of
> it, at least not in the pacman database.

I'm not thinking in terms of scripting and the like, I'm thinking in
terms of information. Like... "oh this needed mysql-libs to build, so
maybe it has mysql support"