[pacman-dev] Installing outdated packages

[Dan McGee]

On Dec 4, 2007 11:46 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:31:06PM +0100, matthias at archlinux.de wrote:
> > > On Dec 4, 2007 6:19 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> >
> > >> 2. strange message:
> > >> "      --needed         only install outdated or not yet installed
> > >> packages\n"
> > >> No thx, I don't want to install outdated packages. I translated this as
> > >> 'only
> > >> "upgrade" outdated or not yet ...'
> > > Good catch, I'll change both of these (where is your patch?).
> >
> > I also had to smile/frown on this. And sorry, Dan - I am not competent
> > enough to provide a patch. But competent enough to start a new thread ...
> >
> > .de version is underway

Awesome, thanks! You may want to see my working branch where I updated
these messages:
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=shortlog;h=working
git remote add dan http://code.toofishes.net/gitprojects/pacman.git

> Indeed, it sounds stupid, that's my fault, sorry. But so does "upgrade not
> yet installed packages".  If that's more acceptable though, I'm fine with it.

Eh, its tough to fit one line descriptions sometimes. But given that
the verb came right before the object "outdated packages", it makes a
bit more sense.

-Dan