2007/1/24, Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org>:
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 10:19 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
I have a few pending questions about the current output that I'd like to get some opinions on.
Firstly, the spacing in -Ss output - there is an extra newline after each package. This was added a while back upon request, and i personally like it, but it makes the output real huge.
Looks like the options are: * Keep the line (-Ss output) * Remove the line (-Qs output) * Add the line between repositories only.
I have no preference here.
It doesn't matter much for me, but IMHO it would be better to have -Ss and -Qs with the same look.
Secondly, we have an interesting -Ss "issue" here: $ pacman -Ss ^kernel26$
This should only output (duh) kernel26. However, it also displays kernel26beyond. This is because -Ss ALSO searches the provides=() entries for each package... this is a bit misleading.
The options are as follows: * Keep this search and indicate, somewhere, that the package was matched due to a provides=() entry * Don't search provides=() at all
or: 3) Don't search provides with -Ss, but add another option for searching provides.
Also, in the previous discussion about this there was a mention of adding a reason to packages that were matched because of provides. I like Dale's idea though. I don't think pacman has too much options, so some new option won't hurt IMHO. However there's no need to make all options single-char, something like -Ss --provides will be enough, IMHO. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)