17 Jun
2016
17 Jun
'16
3:51 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:21:08AM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
The problem with allowing -S to handle paths/urls is that package package names are also valid paths. Having pacman attempt to pick the one that makes the most sense by default would be okay, but users need to have some way to unambiguously distinguish between the two.
Perhaps consider requiring an absolute path for distinguishing local files. It might also be possible to re-use the -f flag (such as tar(1)) for being extra explicit.