There seems to be a change in behavior dealing with removing packages on an -S operation due to package conflicts. In the past, it was clear when pacman was removing a package because you got the progress line. Now, it appears to silently remove.<br>
<br>For example, if I have python-mpd-git installed and do a pacman -S python-mpd, which of course conflicts with the former, I get the following:<br><br>$ pacman -S python-mpd<br>resolving dependencies...<br>looking for inter-conflicts...<br>
:: python-mpd conflicts with python-mpd-git. Remove python-mpd-git? [Y/n] <br><br>Remove (1): python-mpd-git-20090101-1&nbsp; <br><br>Total Removed Size:&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.05 MB<br><br>Targets (1): python-mpd-0.2.1-2&nbsp; <br><br>Total Download Size:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.00 MB<br>
Total Installed Size:&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.05 MB<br><br>Proceed with installation? [Y/n]<br><br><br>I chose yes to the first question but I&#39;m not sure if it has yet been removed by the time I get to the second question. (Testing this, I see that it hasn&#39;t.) If I then click yes to proceed with the installation, I get:<br>
<br>:: Retrieving packages from extra...<br>&nbsp;python-mpd-0.2.1-2-i686&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7.7K&nbsp;&nbsp; 49.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################] 100%<br>checking package integrity...<br>(1/1) checking for file conflicts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [#############################]100%<br>
(1/1) installing python-mpd&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [#############################]100%<br><br><br>So it never shows that the package was removed. I think it would be better if it did, like when I do a pacman -R operation. I believe it worked this way in the past and it seems more obvious to the user what&#39;s happening.<br>
<br>Scott<br>