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FS#47126 - [pkgfile] indicate if package is installed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Developer Laptander (laptander) - Thursday, 19 November 2015, 20:40 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 22 November 2015, 19:28 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
pkgfile is a wonderfull util, but I wish it to also display information about if package is installed.
It is usefull when for example there are several matches.

Steps to reproduce:
run pkgfile xrandr and you will see two matches, but you are not able to see if packages are installed.
extra/bash-completion
extra/xorg-xrandr
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Sunday, 22 November 2015, 19:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Patches can be sent to the github repo.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 19 November 2015, 21:51 GMT
Upstream is here: https://github.com/falconindy/pkgfile

As the author is an Arch Dev, he'll see it here, though.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 22 November 2015, 19:27 GMT
I do not have time or interest in implementing this myself. If you're interested in making this happen, this would require:

1) some initial restructuring in the search logic to carry through package versions even when they aren't listed
2) sensitivity to versioning (for the case when the output contains the same package in multiple repos)
3) a flag to enable this added behavior. pkgfile's output is considered stable, and can't be broken by default by this addition.

Patches should be sent as pull requests on github.

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