On 11/02/14 02:23, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
On 14-02-10 11:06:51, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 02/09/14 at 07:41pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
If input cannot be parsed, it is not desirable to output it along other valid entries. This would make pacsearch output unpredictable.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> --- contrib/pacsearch.in | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-1. pacsearch is a thin pacman wrapper and should not hide output. Since it doesn't do any real argument parsing, a user can pass an option that alters pacman's output (-q for instance) and this would hide all output from the user without giving any indication of an error.
Then I suggest to print a message to stderr instead, since outputing unparseable lines among the regular output can introdcue subtle bugs in programs using pacsearch output.
Do you have an example with unparsable output? A