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.
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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