On 9/11/07, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:48:49PM +0200, Mateusz Jedrasik wrote:
Tuesday 11 of September 2007 16:22:05 Nagy Gabor napisał(a):
That's probably a good idea, I made a patch for it. pacman -R xorg will only try to remove the xorg package, pacman -Rg xorg will only try to remove the xorg group.
I must mention a backward: -if the user wants to remove one group and one package with one command, he cannot do that (however, this is a rare, and this is a _front-end_ problem)
In my opinion we should implement both -Sg and -Rg or neither of them. (-Sg now lists the group members, after this we could pick the question to the user: "Do you want to install the whole group?" [yes/no/quit] or we should rename the current -Sg to -Si or to -Sig)
I don't think we need -Sg. As long as during a pacman -S group_package pacman pus a big info (like currently it does with kde for example or gnome afaik and allows for choosing components) that should/would be ok. Because if you implement -Sg then doing pacman -S xorg will do what? Nothing? Or just install en empty group withtout pulling the actual group contents? Silly ;-)
Btw, I hope you all saw the hidden C in the subject.
Otherwise, it looks like -S has exactly the opposite problem. It is only possible to install the xorg metapackage, not the xorg group, when both exist.
+1 on making -g work both for -S and -R. However, why don't we do the following for backwards compatability: 1. pacman -S grppkg: look for a package named grppkg, then group 2. pacman -Sg grppkg: look for a group named grppkg (and ignore a package if there is one) 3. pacman -R grppkg: only remove a package named grppkg (I don't think group removal is used enough to warrant keeping backwards compat) 4. pacman -Rg grppkg: remove a group named grppkg This gives us a small issue when it comes to the current behavior of -Sg, however, that I have yet to figure out. Anyone know a good way to somehow keep the ability to list the contents of current groups and implement the above? Patches welcome. :) -Dan