[aur-requests] [PRQ#6936] Deletion Request for yaourt-dev-null-git
thurstylark [1] filed a deletion request for yaourt-dev-null-git [2]: Highly specific use case. Trivially reproduced by appending `>/dev/null` to the command line. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/thurstylark/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/yaourt-dev-null-git/
On 28 November 2016 at 19:51,
thurstylark [1] filed a deletion request for yaourt-dev-null-git [2]:
Highly specific use case. Trivially reproduced by appending `>/dev/null` to the command line.
I partially agree with you. Indeed it is easily possible to redirect to '/dev/null' using a redirect, we miss two functionalities here: 1. When you search with yaourt w/o parameters (e.g. 'yaourt package-query') all search results are redirected to '/dev/null', making this useless. 2. The coloring that yaourt uses while outputting is lost. In that case (specially #1), I don't think this pkg doesn't provide any extra functionality. Sincerely,
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/thurstylark/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/yaourt-dev-null-git/
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Gabriel B Casella via aur-requests
I partially agree with you. Indeed it is easily possible to redirect to '/dev/null' using a redirect, we miss two functionalities here: 1. When you search with yaourt w/o parameters (e.g. 'yaourt package-query') all search results are redirected to '/dev/null', making this useless.
How hard is it to not type the redirect then? Are you wrapping yaourt further, for whatever reason?
2. The coloring that yaourt uses while outputting is lost.
Does yaourt come with a --color=always flag? Because then you can make it add the color in a pipe, eg. |less -R. cheers! mar77i
Request #6936 has been accepted by Barthalion [1]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Barthalion/
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