[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Don't ask for install confirmation if no dependencies

Scott Horowitz stonecrest at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 20:16:57 EST 2007


On Dec 28, 2007 2:19 PM,  <mmiikkee13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a patch to make Pacman only ask for confirmation if anything
> different from what the user requested (i.e. dependencies) is going to
> be installed. Since the user took the time to type out "pacman -Sy
> foo", they obviously did want foo installed, and it really wouldn't
> make sense to ask them this again unless something else will be
> installed.

I like this. It's akin to the fact that pacman -R foo doesn't prompt you.

(How crazy is that? Removing a package doesn't prompt you but
installing a package does.)

Scott




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