makedepends field of alpm_pkg_t

[Andrew Gregory]

On 07/15/22 at 03:47pm, Colin Woodbury wrote:
> Hi guys, I have a brief question about the `makedepends` field of the
> `alpm_pkg_t` type. Try as I might, I'm unable to get this field to report
> anything (i.e. a non-empty alpm_list) for installed packages originally from
> the AUR that definitely had makedepends. This seems to be the case even when
> those makedepends are still installed.
> 
> Under what circumstances should this field be expected to yield results? To
> be clear, I'm accessing it via the top-level `_pkg_get_makedepends`
> function.

Makedepends are not tracked for installed packages.