andrewchambers

Overall these are good changes, though I won't merge for a few reasons. 1.) I prefer to keep sh instead of bash for portability reasons. 2.) Some things are specific...

Yeah, I often use OpenBSD which does have bash, but it is not installed by default.

oh definitely, thank you very much, I'll try to cherry pick them.

Hmm yeah, so transitive dependencies in .pc files do sound like an interesting challenge. You could try calling link-farm to add the dependency pkgconfig files to a packages output. This...

The second two yes, but we need to split lib packages into -rt parts anyway In the future imo. I think link-farm should try to see if the link target...

> Should I make an issue for enhancing link-farm then? (I did a couple of quick searches on an Ubuntu machine and an Arch Linux machine and found no duplicate...

Hmm, not too many, big core can slow down builds maybe. I wonder if there is a practical upper bound on the amount of setup some packages will require users...

it is a symlink to /bin, I think you can rely on it.

I think we could add some sort of :meta key to the package constructor in hermes. Individual package repos can then decide what metadata is actually valuable. The metadata would...

bupstash currently doesn't have cloud storage other than what is offered at https://bupstash.io/managed.html - though I don't mind crediting an account to do tests.