On 7/12/20 5:05 am, Daan De Meyer wrote:
Hi,
I recently added --needed to pacman's invocation in mkosi but noticed that even when --needed is specified, pacman still prints warning messages for packages that it's skipping because they are already installed. My intuition was that by enabling --needed, I was explicitly telling pacman that there might be packages that are already installed in the packages that I'm installing and that I want to skip those and not be warned about them. The skipping works fine but I still get warnings. Would it make sense to remove the skipped warning message for packages that are already installed when --needed is specified since the user is explicitly requesting this behavior?
I'm on the fence here. You have explicitly asked for packages to be installed by providing them on the command line, but then --needed says they don't need installed. That does seem warning-ish to me. Allan