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

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 06:39:49 Xyne wrote:
> 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?

Sure, only few people would benefit from these changes. But it will make tools 
easier and queries are more unified.

But let's not forget that the only downside of this extremely simple patch is 
adding a few bytes to the db/package bytes. (What was it? ~1,6KB for all repos 
together including testing and community)

-- 

Pierre Schmitz


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