FS#12951 - namcap should list all dependencies

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 25 January 2009, 00:18 GMT
Last edited by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Saturday, 11 April 2009, 15:51 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I sent an emain to Hugo Doria about this cause he asked about which features would people like to see in namcap
but didnt get a reply. So heres a feature request.

I think that namcap should report back all the dependencies of a package it examines, even the packages in base.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 15:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 12:18 GMT
I would say that base packages could be skipped, but all direct dependencies should be listed,
e.g. if A depends on B and C, and B depend on C then namcap should list both B and C as dependencies.
This will help to easily identify packages that need rebuild due to .so bump, which is not that easy now because the common convention now is to omit dependencies that are pulled by other dependencies (i.e. most packages would not list C as a dependency of A because B pulls it anyway).
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 12:52 GMT
I consider this FR a sequel of my comment http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10752#comment29893 and  FS#12890  as well as maybe  FS#12959  or even  FS#12391 
If namcap lists dependencies in base as well, it will help towards this direction.
Comment by Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 05:15 GMT
I think namcap should report the minimum number of dependencies
required to get that package installed (including packages in base),
otherwise the output will become cluttered.

For listing all the dependencies of a package (recursively), there's
a program called deptree (or of a similar name) in pacman-contrib
which does so.
Comment by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Saturday, 11 April 2009, 15:51 GMT
i am with abhishek here.

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