On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com> wrote:

There seems to be a change in behavior dealing with removing packages on an -S operation due to package conflicts. In the past, it was clear when pacman was removing a package because you got the progress line. Now, it appears to silently remove.

For example, if I have python-mpd-git installed and do a pacman -S python-mpd, which of course conflicts with the former, I get the following:

$ pacman -S python-mpd resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: python-mpd conflicts with python-mpd-git. Remove python-mpd-git? [Y/n]

Remove (1): python-mpd-git-20090101-1

Total Removed Size: 0.05 MB

Targets (1): python-mpd-0.2.1-2

Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 0.05 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

I chose yes to the first question but I'm not sure if it has yet been removed by the time I get to the second question. (Testing this, I see that it hasn't.) If I then click yes to proceed with the installation, I get:

:: Retrieving packages from extra... python-mpd-0.2.1-2-i686 7.7K 49.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################] 100% checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#############################]100% (1/1) installing python-mpd [#############################]100%

So it never shows that the package was removed. I think it would be better if it did, like when I do a pacman -R operation. I believe it worked this way in the past and it seems more obvious to the user what's happening.

Scott

Are you sure the package was removed? Can you check your local db to be sure?