On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:31:04PM +0200, Maxim Andersson wrote:
Hi,
Been looking into adding a new option for paccache that would remove all uninstalled packages (and at the same time keep the default number of the others). So,
paccache -r --removeuninstalled
would be the same as running
paccache -r && paccache -ruk0
I don't think this is such a bad alternative. I'm not really fond of the idea of "aliasing" existing functionality into new flags, especially if the cost is code complexity.
But before sending in my patch/option-proposal, I would like to hear what you think a good option name would be? I think "removeuninstalled" is pretty descriptive, but it's a bit long.. and I wasn't able come up with any good shorter names.
Do you have the patch already? Having code makes for a far more interesting discussion than bikeshedding over the name of the flag.