Re: [pacman-dev] Sg and Rg options && manpage update

On 9/21/07, Xavier wrote:

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Note that there were two differents proposals : 1) -S and -R look for packages first, and then fallback on groups. -Sg and -Rg only look for groups.

2) -S and -R only look for packages -Sg and -Rg only look for groups.

The second proposal appears, from an outside view, to be an unfair restriction. We'd be removing functionality that currently works, and I don't know if I like that.

Sure it might clean up the code and all, BUT perfect code for a crippled app is never a good idea.

Clean-up also implies (slight) speed-up. This is really slight now ;-), because -S also can install provider as Xavier mentioned (<- I don't like this, this is also assymetric: -R doesn't deal with it.) Let me explain: user does a "pacman -S xorfg" (<-typo) -pacman search for packages (fast) with no success. -pacman search for groups (slow!, pacman must read the desc files in sync repos) with no success -pacman search for providers (slow!, pacman must read the depend files too). -pacman stops with an error message So in this special case, if pacman would search for packages only, that would be ~300% speed-up (in my machine). To tell the truth, this is not a reason for me;-) Personally, I find 1.) much more confusing (in the first time, it took ~15 minutes me to figure out how to install a group, pacman -Sh mentions package everywhere, in the manual I still cannot find this information); so my vote: 2.) Bye, ngaba ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/