On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi2@gmail.com> wrote:
* The alpm_rmrf function is available from the frontend, which does the same as this function did.
* It was worth to modify _alpm_rmrf to alpm_rmrf for pacman frontend to be able to use it in the future or for other frontend, so the function declaration was moved into the api header file, named alpm.h, and the definition of this function got a SYMEXPORT attribute.
* The rmrf funtion calling was changed in ./src/pacman/sync.c for alpm_rmrf
* The _alpm_rmrf functions were changed in api for alpm_rmrf
Why would we do that ? alpm is not a general system utility. Besides this function is not as safe as it could be. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16363