[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Show 'Required By' in -Si output

[Laszlo Papp]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:

> > Dan McGee schrieb:
> > > Just as we do in -Qi, we can compute required by information for sync
> > > database packages. The behavior seems sane; for a given package, the
> -Si
> > > required by will show all packages in *any* sync database that require
> it.
> > >
> > > Implements FS#16244.
> > >
> >
> > I was wondering about -Qi too: Finding the contents of the "Required By"
> > field takes some time and I want an option to only show the information
> > that is cheap to get. That same thought would apply to -Si. Maybe abuse
> > -q here (as it has no effect on -Qi or -Si yet) and omit those checks
> > with -Siq or -Qiq.
> >
>
> Combined with my "-Sii would not be coherent with -Qii" complaint above,
> maybe we should just move Requiredby to -Qii (and -Sii). And then the
> new meaning of -Qii would be: more verbose.
>
> Bye
>
> PS: When finally we have fast database, these issues just disappear, so
> maybe we should working on that instead of workarounding lots of
> things... But that is not easy. ;-)
>
>
>
I agree with you Gabor, fast database could be the previous task for it.,
maybe I wrote it in my report, but maybe the next task is given :) So it's
worth to deal with it instead of changing other working options to a not so
coherent, because I guess fast database will be implemented in the future
anyway.

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp