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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Xyne wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> Do not think of pacman as Arch specific.  Can you currently get this info
> easily for KDEmod?  How about any of the other distros using pacman?

As a rather wild aside here... what would be the downside of sticking
the entire PKGBUILD in the pacman DB? How much size would that add?