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

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Sunday 14 June 2009 10:05:46 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>   
>> this simple addition makes it easy to implement split package support in
>> our db-scripts.
>>
>> But it might be a quite useful information anyway and thus not Arch
>> related.
>>     
>
> Sorry for pushing this, but it would be nice to know if there is a chance that 
> a patch like this would be accepted or not. If there is anything I can do, let 
> me know.
>   

I'd say this is very likely to go in.  I'd say definitely if we going to 
include this in -S/Qi output, which I think is very justified.  But 
there is already a lot of "None" entries...

 > pacman -Si | wc -l
80913

 > pacman -Si | grep "None" | wc -l
19179

19179/80913 = 23%

Between this and the makedepends inclusion (I'd say less likely to go 
in...), we really need to have a general discussion about what we want 
included in the the .PKGINFO file and pacman database files.

Allan