On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a suggestion to make, concerning that cache cleaning topic of [1]. Pacman itself seems to cover some cache cleaning functionality with -Sc (I noticed when updating the config file). Would it not make sense to move that out into little scripts which in turn are called by pacman internally through the CleaningMethod (and transform that one into a shell command)? Another way would be adding the options
CleaningMethod = CleanupScript CleanupScript = /path/to/my/cache_vacuum_cleaner
Letting CleaningMethod = CleanupScript accept a second parameter, like CleaningMethod = CleanupScript <file> would look even nicer, but might break pacman's coding guidelines. That way everyone could staple his own cache cleaning script to pacman. If the idea is sort of accepted, I could look into the issue myself, even.
Seems a bit overkill when people can just call a different command. I'd like to stay KISS here, and adding a whole script-invoking set of code to the cleanup stuff seems a bit overkill. 4.0.0 will have a new paccache cleaning script [1] in contrib/. -Dan [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/contrib/paccache.in