[pacman-dev] pacman -Sdf

[Dan McGee]

On 6/4/07, Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/6/5, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>:
> > That particular error isn't complaining about conflicts between files,
> > it's saying that, specifically, lprng as a package conflicts with cups,
> > ie. in the lprng package, it says conflicts=('cups')
>
> If I know, but if I cannot overwrite with -Sdf, why I'm able to do it
> with -Adf or -Udf?
>
> > As far as I know, pacman -A doesn't calculate per-package conflicts -
> > some difference in the codebase between -A and -U.
>
> As far as I know, pacman help pages show same messages:
>
> pacman -hA
>
>   -d, --nodeps         skip dependency checks
>   -f, --force          force install, overwrite conflicting files
>
> pacman -hU
>
>   -d, --nodeps         skip dependency checks
>   -f, --force          force install, overwrite conflicting files
>
> pacman -hS
>
>   -d, --nodeps         skip dependency checks
>   -f, --force          force install, overwrite conflicting files

-U and -A share code, -S does not. The help instructions aren't going
to change, that is just boilerplate text. What should be the desired
behavior?

-Dan