Re: jhalfs and all installed packages on the system

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On Thu, 2025-12-18 at 02:36 -0300, Jamenson Espindula wrote:

> One: am I really required to manually tell jhalfs about every single
> installed package on the system or can it automatically determine
> every single installed package on the system (with no human
> intervention)?

I don't think it's implemented.

> Two: once I told jhalfs about every single installed package, If a
> given package that is already installed is a dependency of another
> package that is yet to be installed, is it normal the system reinstall
> such a package?
>=20
> Three: jhalfs could use the 'pkgconf' program in order to
> automatically determine every single installed package on the system
> (with no human intervention)?

I don't think it's possible.  The BLFS book does not record the mapping
of .pc files and the packages.  And even if it does so, some packages
don't ship a .pc file at all.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>

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