[arch-general] libgsf update

[Myra Nelson]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 21:08, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> > What is the proper procedure for sending a patch for the man pages? I've
> > done some work on pacman.8 to reflect some of the wiki changes. Also
> would
> > it be acceptable to include in the man page that the -f option has been
> > deprecated and shouldn't be used and do the same on the pacman wiki page?
>
> There's
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:Requests#Remove_-f_short_option_for_--force
>

Karol:

Thanks for the link. Not quite what I was referring to. From earlier in the
conversation:

> now, why do you think that -f will solve every problem? -f is not for
> forcing updates when dependencies are not met!
>
> Stop using -f.

> I was only curios since I see a lot of our users using -f along with -Su
> and with -Sdd lately and maybe our manual is not clear enough.

I meant adding/emphasizing a warning to the man pages and the wiki page
about the use of -f or --force.

Myra


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