Aaron Griffin 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
It'd be nice to have, though not crucial. It's helpful to be able to
see the contents of a package without installing it.
DR
