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Tasklist

FS#28570 - Add ability to filter by source language

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by philomath (archadmirer) - Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 21:15 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 08 March 2012, 14:55 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
In a FLOSS environment, where the community is expected to collaborate, the language in which the software was written can be a very important detail. A user proficient in prolog, say, may wish to list all the packages written in prolog, so he can try his hand on some of them.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
4.0.2-1

This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 08 March 2012, 14:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  As Allan said, we won't be doing this. In addition, this isn't even as clear-cut as license- many project are written in a variety of languages (pacman included, at least 3 here). Moreover, if you are truely looking to collaborate, a binary package manager is not your best starting point for doing so.
Comment by philomath (archadmirer) - Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 21:19 GMT
closely related is the ability to download the source package (i.e. install into /usr/src), can use the same mechanism makepkg uses in order to build.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 21:27 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Arch Linux → Pacman)
  • Field changed: Summary ([pacman] add ability to filter by source language → Add ability to filter by source language)
This is less important to the pacman developers than filtering by license ( FS#6510 ), which is to say "not very important".

"Closely related" is a huge stretch, regarding your comment.
Comment by philomath (archadmirer) - Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 16:58 GMT
right. I have added that as an afterthought. should I open another feature request?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 06 March 2012, 06:35 GMT
I find the language the source is written in completely unrelated to any aspect of package management. So I would consider this a "Won't Implement".

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