Re: pkg/32827 (add -A option to pkg_info to make it only show Application packages (that are not required by anybody))

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/32827; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost, plunky%rya-online.net@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/32827 (add -A option to pkg_info to make it only show
        Application packages (that are not required by anybody))
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:17:01 +0000

 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:52:30PM +0000, joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Synopsis: add -A option to pkg_info to make it only show Application 
packages (that are not required by anybody)
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->analyzed
  > State-Changed-By: joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:52:29 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > A package provides this option and targets the requirements of the
  > submitter. Open question whether this should be in pkg_info itself
  > remains.
 
 ...after nearly a year and a half, have we reached a decision?
 
 (IMO, adding a million special-case queries as options to pkg_info
 doesn't scale; if we really want all these queries to be answered
 directly by pkg_info it should grow a real query language of some
 kind.)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost