On 3/18/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been somewhat systematically going through the various less commonly used options, and there are some issues. Most of these are smaller than the ones James has previously described ;)
1. pacman -S --noprogressbar seems to add some extra "done"s and is missing some other output like (1/2) next to the installed package.
Extra done text is fixed (locally) and will soon be in CVS. The (1/2) stuff is done with the progress bar, so that isn't going to show up now with --noprogressbar. That was an addition since pacman 2 anyway, so no one should care.
2. pacman -S --noscriptlet -> should this be a permanent action? In other words, if I pacman -S --notscriptlet foo and then pacman -S foo (or pacman -Su when foo is updated), should the script run the second time? I can understand it working either way: 1) if you install with noscriptlet, you never want the script to run, or 2) if you pacman -S a second time without specifying noscriptlet, you'd want the script to run. The docs aren't explicit enough for me to understand. Maybe -S/U foo should be handled differently than pacman -Su.
This is something that needs further thought. I don't really like the concept of --noscriptlet all that much, but that's a different story.
3. How does pacman -Qc work? I've tried it on numerous packages and have to find one with a changelog displayed by pacman.
We can't put changelogs in yet, because pacman 2 will install them in the root directory as .CHANGELOG, which you probably don't want. Perhaps we should do this now to solve this problem in the future- any file in the root directory of the archive that begins with '.' should not be installed? This would allow for extensibility once everyone is on the pacman3 bandwagon.
4. The following are missing from the man page: --noscriptlet, --ask, -Qc, -Se
Added where necessary. --ask seems stupid, it looks half-baked and half-implemented in the code. My new manpage entry says as much. -Se isn't an option at all, I think...
5. "--noconfirm do not ask for anything confirmation" -> that should probably read "do not ask for any confirmation"
Fixed, and I even updated it in the PO files. -Dan