[pacman-dev] pacman -Sw

[VMiklos]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:56:40PM +0100, Aurelien Foret <aurelien at archlinux.org> wrote:
> If I look at code more closely at pacman 2.9.8 code, there are several 
> chunks of code enclosed by the "if(!downloadonly) { ... }" statement 
> which does not exist in the cvs code.
> Basically, in sync_prepare, the "checkconflict" part should not be 
> performed.

is it really good? the typical usage of downloadonly is when you have to
update a lot of packages, and you have a fast connection, then later you
can upgrade the packages. in this scenario, imho it's really annoying if
i download a package and later pacman tells me that i can't install the
package i already downloaded

> Idea: when should maybe split the code chunk in sync_prepare dealing 
> with deps and conflicts within the "if(!FLAG_NODEPS) { ... }" block in 
> two parts:
> 
> if(!FLAG_NODEPS) {
>    checkdeps...
> }
> if(!FLAG_NOCONFLICT) {
>    checkconflict...
> }
> 
> with FLAG_NOCONFLICT being a new flag, that the frontend should force 
> when running "-Sw" in order to bypass all the conflicts checking.
> 
> Thoughts?

or just name it "downloadonly", probably this is the only case the
frontend should use it

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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