[pacman-dev] some limitations of the current front-end, new -D option

[Miklos Vajna]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:44:16PM +0200, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> So what about a new -D (like database) operation: set of commands to modify
> localdb (for experts only;-)?

-D is already used by makepkg. though a relevant patch is here:

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman-g2.git;a=commit;h=09414be392cfe85b0359877d60c5cf4260a0845f

so that if foo requires libfoo and libfoo is marked as DEPEND, and later
a use does a -S libfoo its reason will be changed to EXPLICIT. relevant
test:

relevant tests:

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman-g2.git;a=commit;h=4c7e0306d79d3aa8b482eb73152c5a70f824c4d3

- VMiklos
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