Pacman Roadmap

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This pages does not provide a traditional roadmap. Pacman releases are generally made after a major feature has been added and these get added in the order that patches are contributed.

Instead, this page provides a brief overview of major features being discussed for future inclusion in pacman. This does not represent a complete list of all areas of pacman development (or even areas currently being developed...). All discussion about pacman development should take place on the pacman-dev mailing list.

Contents

New Feature Ideas

Package Signing

Idea: Package signing would make pacman transactions more secure. See here for a more detailed description.

Flyspray: FS#5331

Development branch: Dan's newgpg branch contains some initial development. Other patches of interest [1], [2], [3].

Tar-DB

Idea: Have the pacman database contained in a single/small number of tar file(s) instead of a large number of flat text files.

Flyspray: FS#8586

Development branch: Not started, although some code has floated around.

Hooks

Idea: Pacman should have hooks to perform common tasks. See here for a more detailed description.

Flyspray: (none)

Development branch: Not started

Optdepend Handling

Idea: Currently optdepends in pacman serve no purpose other than informational. It would be useful if these could be handled in a similar fashion to regular dependencies for many operations. See here for a more detailed description.

Flyspray: FS#12708

Development branch: Not started

Future Release Plans

See flyspray roadmap

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