diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.h
index be78245c..f8fd082c 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.h
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ alpm_list_t *alpm_list_nth(alpm_list_t *list, int n);
 alpm_list_t *alpm_list_next(alpm_list_t *list);
 alpm_list_t *alpm_list_last(alpm_list_t *list);
 void *alpm_list_getdata(const alpm_list_t *entry);
-#define alpm_list_data(type, list) (type)alpm_list_getdata((list))
 
 /* misc */
 int alpm_list_count(const alpm_list_t *list);
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/deps.c b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
index 492b64a0..ae378658 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/deps.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ alpm_list_t *_alpm_sortbydeps(alpm_list_t *targets, pmtranstype_t mode)
 		for(i = newtargs; i; i = i->next) {
 			pmpkg_t *p = (pmpkg_t*)i->data;
 			_alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, "sorting %s", p->name);
+			/* TODO this may not always work if p->data is a fd, not db */
 			_alpm_db_read(p->data, INFRQ_DEPENDS, p);
 			for(j = p->depends; j; j = j->next) {
 				pmdepend_t dep;