[pacman-dev] ignore question asked twice

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 15:38:33 EST 2007


On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:19:44PM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> 3. commit 55a7455135e2d8f2e118928f634dc7976ab6c8b4 and asymmetric
> search-for-satisfier caused a strange situation:
> # pacman -S foo --ignore foo-dependency
> "install foo-dependency anyway?" is asked twice, if this foo-dependency is a
> literal satisfier, because in the search-for-provisions we use alpm_depcmp,
> which finds literals again...

Uh, I thought I couldn't reproduce this, because I was answering the default
question (yes).
Now I see, but I don't consider this to be a big problem. Why would you
answer no to the question anyway?
When you do, pacman will just fail.




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