On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:08 +0300 > Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Ok. So people should then be using has_version in pkg_info if they > > want to detect if it's installed or not? > > If they absolutely totally need to detect that, then yes.
Presuming I read that correctly, invoking has_version w/in pkg x to see if pkg x is installed seems like redundant code (and slightly circuitious from a PM standpoint)- why not just export a bool into the env for pkg_info indicating if it is installed or not? ~harring
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