Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Support reading package args from stdin

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:

Only occurs if no arguments were provided directly. Arguments can be separated by any amount of valid whitespace. This allows for piping into pacman from other programs or from itself, e.g.:

 pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs

What's wrong with xargs? -Dan