[pacman-dev] feature request: -Sug
Hi! We discussed here, that after "pacman -S group" you have to answer tons of annoying questions (even if your 'foo' package is up-to-date, you are asked if you want to install it or not) or install needless packages. Usually I want to _upgrade_ my whole _installed_ group (when my net is slow, and -Su would download hundreds of MBs); then I must do pacman -S `pacman -Qg group|awk ...` magic. Or in more general: we may add a new option to -S: upgrade-only -- not add. Bye, ngaba ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
On 10/20/07, Nagy Gabor
Hi! We discussed here, that after "pacman -S group" you have to answer tons of annoying questions (even if your 'foo' package is up-to-date, you are asked if you want to install it or not) or install needless packages. Usually I want to _upgrade_ my whole _installed_ group (when my net is slow, and -Su would download hundreds of MBs); then I must do pacman -S `pacman -Qg group|awk ...` magic. Or in more general: we may add a new option to -S: upgrade-only -- not add.
Please add this to the bug tracker
Please add this to the bug tracker OK, and I will add an other one to there: An option to "-R group" would be nice to remove the "removable" packages from the 'group': i.e. remove packages, which belongs to 'group' and the transaction won't cause any dependency breaks. For example, you want to remove 'group', which contains 100 packages. And 'foo' package in 'group' (contra 99) is a needed dependency of 'bar' (which doesn't belong to 'group' and you don't want to remove it). You have to answer to 100 questions, because "pacman -R group --ignore foo" doesn't work neither (<- this is the 2nd request;-), and answering yes to "remove whole content?" would induce dependency error. Yes, the main limitation of the current front-end appears when you want to work with groups. Bye, ngaba
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:56:27PM +0200, Nagy Gabor wrote:
Please add this to the bug tracker OK, and I will add an other one to there: An option to "-R group" would be nice to remove the "removable" packages from the 'group': i.e. remove packages, which belongs to 'group' and the transaction won't cause any dependency breaks. For example, you want to remove 'group', which contains 100 packages. And 'foo' package in 'group' (contra 99) is a needed dependency of 'bar' (which doesn't belong to 'group' and you don't want to remove it). You have to answer to 100 questions, because "pacman -R group --ignore foo" doesn't work neither (<- this is the 2nd request;-), and answering yes to "remove whole content?" would induce dependency error. Yes, the main limitation of the current front-end appears when you want to work with groups. Bye, ngaba
I just read a similar bug report this morning. But I see that Romashka already noticed that as well :) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6505
participants (3)
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Aaron Griffin
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Nagy Gabor
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Xavier