On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 18/11/10 06:59, Dan McGee wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Evangelos Foutras<foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:
Doing so can lead to broken applications after soname bumps, or major version upgrades like the transition to Python 3.
I have mixed feelings for sure on this. The intent is great, for soure. But I do -Sy<pkg> a lot, knowing what is safe, what isn't. This prompting would annoy the heck out of me. This also doesn't help anyone that does an -Syu, cancels, and then later -S<anything>.
I have very strong feelings against this. This operation is perfectly fine, even recommended, on a non-rolling release distro. And we do have one of those using pacman (Arch Server - where I would -Sy and then review which packages to upgrade...).
Allan
Plus there are other pacman commands that can mess up a system like -Sf and -Sd and they don't promt for confirmation.