9 Feb
2013
9 Feb
'13
11:30 a.m.
On 2013-02-09 11:57, Allan McRae wrote:
On 09/02/13 20:52, Jakob Gruber wrote:
I'm not too happy about this to be honest. I've often had cases in which disk failures / crashes during updates / other causes left me with packages that did not own any of their files. Removing those one-by-one would be extremely tedious.
pacman -S --dbonly pkg && pacman -S pkg
The final one might not be needed, but better safe...
I'd also lend my voice to remove the option. Following the BBS and the IRC, it seems this almost always causes more harm than good. And even though almost every case of its causing a problem is user error, if there's not really much benefit from keeping the option, then it seems sensible to remove it. All the best, Sam