On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:33:39PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
After thinking about this patch, I guess I have to give it a -1. Why?
First, I'm just not sold that we need this type of behavior in libalpm. Like you said, this seems like something we should do in a frontend. It makes much more sense to me for a GUI tool to offer selections like this, but for a command line tool, I think we could script this behavior rather than modify the source.
Second, I just have to draw the line somewhere with regards to new options and flags, and I just don't like this one enough to want to include it and have to support it into the future.
Keep up the creative thought though- I'm glad to see we could do things like this if we wanted to. Perhaps we should ask- what would we need to do to libalpm to be able to easily do things like this from a frontend instead?
That makes sense indeed.