21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
4:46 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:19:25AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
This seems like the mirror of your --unneeded option, in a way. Not sure if --needed is really the best way to describe it, but it is a possibility.
Yes, kind of.
This would also allow us to remove the -F option if we ported it to -U/-A as well.
Except that -F apparently doesn't want to install new packages, only upgrade existing but outdated ones. While the option I had in mind for -S would either install new packages, or upgrading existing but outdated ones. But I never used -F once in all the time I used Arch. Who uses this option? I actually was surprised when I first saw it some times ago. And I already forgot it existed, since I never see it mentioned anywhere.