On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Bahn <Thomas-Bahn@gmx.net> wrote:
this patch introduces a question on every repository sync if a am right. So that patch also asks if you type 'pacman -Syu' ? If it is i would not vote for this patch, because it's another question you must acknoweledge every system update.
Nope, it only asks you if the -u switch is absent. In that case, the question is asked only once per sync operation.
If it only asks on 'pacman -Sy <package>' then its ok for me. Another suggestion, only print this warning and don't ask. An arch user would read the output of pacman and its package pre/post-scripts and is warned.
One problem I see with only printing a warning is that the user doesn't have the option not to synchronize at this point and just rerun pacman without the -y switch to install their package.