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

[Xyne]

> Note that all of these are easily done already...  either grepping 
> through the ABS tree or using the rebuild scripts that I posted to the 
> arch-dev-public list.
> 
> The only advantage I see of this is that instead of grepping through the 
> ABS tree (which may not be implemented for all users of pacman...), you 
> can grep through the pacman sync db.  I see no reason for adding this to 
> the -S/Qi output as when it is important, it will be displayed in 
> optdepends.

Considering that only a very few people will actually use this, is it
really worth adding to the database of all users if it's already
possible to do this with the abs tree? Won't most people who would use
this already have the abs tree installed?