[pacman-dev] [PATCH] ORE kill in sync.c (was: Re: release roadmap?)

[VMiklos]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Aurelien Foret <aurelien at archlinux.org> wrote:
> It is not really a simple task, and eventually, the transaction 
> structure need to be extended to support sync operations: sync_commit() 
> must be able to deal with both a list of packages to remove and to 
> install in the same operation.
> 
> To sum-up, there's nothing frozen for now, so I'm still interested to 
> hear ideas or suggestions on this topic, or to get some patches too!

http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/conflict-remove.diff

here is a possible implementation

$ sudo pacman -S mtr-nc --noconfirm
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Remove:  mtr

Targets: mtr-nc-0.69-2

Total Package Size:   0.1 MB

Beginning upgrade process...

checking package integrity... done.
removing mtr... done.
(1/1) installing mtr-nc                            [################] 100%

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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