On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
I'd be in favour of the less informative route. I.e.
sudo pacman -Sc --noconfirm Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ removing old packages from cache... done. Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ Database directory cleaned up
Note the only long operation is the "removing old packages from cache..." which notifies the user what is being done anyway. So I think it best not to output those messages. And if you make the "r" in "removing" a capital like every other message in that output at the same time, that would be good.
In this particular case, it is fine indeed. But we have this generic question function. We could skip any printing there in case of --noconfirm, but then we would need to check that all the questions pacman can ask can be silenced.