[pacman-dev] ambigous message in remove.c

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 13:41:48 EST 2007


On 2/23/07, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> Hi!
> When you try to remove a package which doesn't exist in local repo, you
> get the following message: "failed to add target '%s'(could not find or
> read package)"...

I don't know if adding "to the transaction" clarifies the message that
much, as a typical user would have no idea what that actually means in
pacman terms.
I think something along the lines of:
  failed to add target '%s' for removal
  failed to find target '%s' for removal
Would work much better.




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