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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 07:27:11 Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Wont make that much sense (as it is not easily parsable and without patches
> etc. quite useless) However for community/  core/  extra/  kde-unstable/
> local/  testing/ it is (gzip compressed) 1,1M
>
> But you're just kidding, right?

Not exactly - I'm half serious. I mean, a) it'd give us all the
information needed to build the package, b) it'd allow these scripts
to work without an ABS tree.

I'm not saying pacman would _use_ it, I just think it'd be kinda neat.