On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> >>> Used to be that when viewing a package's info on the Arch web site that >>> there was a link to click on that would take you to a page that would list >>> the files contained in that package. (i.e., equivalent to the output of >>> "pacman -Ql <package>") Seems like that functionality is gone now though. >>> >>> Just wondering if there was any particular reason why it was removed, and >>> if there were any plans to bring it back. I used to find it a very handy >>> tool, and it would be great to have it again. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> DR >> >> Anybody? Beuller? Beuller? :-) > > We changed the way the backend worked and parsed information. Due to > this, it made producing file lists very time consuming. That was the > only downside for all the many many upsides of changing it that way. > > We could still save this data, especially considering Pierre wrote a > script to generate file lists in the repos themselves[1] but we > haven't gotten around to it. > > 1: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/extra.files.tar.gz > Point of reference: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50579
