On Saturday 07 July 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > Implementation details wise, I would like to see packages have > possibly 2 functions, > 1: Info, and 2: Check. > Reason Being that you wont be able to fetch installation status info > on a package thats not installed, and if a package is failing to > install, you're more likely wanting to check the status of the things > it depends on, not the package itself.
i dont really understand what you're going for here ... the point was to get extended information on things that are installed ... i dont know what you'd want/expect for trying to query packages that arent installed > Check would contain manual tests for a given package, thats either > installed or not installed ,as well as names of packages to run info > on. > > Info would be more usefull in diagnosing mis-installed packages or > packages that failed to run properly despite being compiled and > installed without a hitch ( it happens ) sounds like you're duplicating the point of src_test() but without any real way of quantifying it or making it useful to coordinate things ... please expound on what you're going for because i'm just not seeing it ... -mike
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