[Feature request] - Check dependencies and makedeps

[whoisroot]

It would be useful to be able to recursively check dependencies to find which ones come from the main repos and which come from AUR!

[zeroz41]

what do you imagine the output of that looking like, and the how you'd call the command.
And do you mean specifying an exact package, and in some indented view under it track those dependencies?

[zeroz41]

and also im sure it could be helpful, but do u mind explaining why you want this feature? :D

[whoisroot]

what do you imagine the output of that looking like, and the how you'd call the command. And do you mean specifying an exact package, and in some indented view under it track those dependencies?

Yes, something like that. It could be called with --tree or --deps for a specific package. Something like pactree -r does, but showing from which repo the packages come.

and also im sure it could be helpful, but do u mind explaining why you want this feature? :D

My PC was suffering to compile blender-git and I wanted to submit a request for it to be built in Chaotic-AUR's cluster. They have this line in the issue template for opening requests:

Link to the package base in the AUR. Include any known AUR dependencies.

I was just being too lazy to manually check all dependencies one by one when I found your tool... 😜

Anyway, does this make sense? Or am I just offloading my work into you 😳 ? Hahaha

[zeroz41]

i mean it does make sense. at its core i intend this to be a quick and easy lookup utility, and what you request is probably doable with an added arg.
In ways i don't want to make the output gigantic if searching large amounts of packages at once, but this flag would be optional, and i already have a flag where it returns ONLY package names line by line, for both small checks and if someone wanted to script with it.

I'll look into it soon when i have a chance, if added i'd want it implemented in a way that doesnt require extra API calls.