[pacman-dev] small pacman code clarification

[Allan McRae]

Hi,

I am fixing FS#12263 (problem with umask and db creation), which only 
requires moving the creation of the db directory for the package before 
the package archive starts getting extracted.

This occurs in the if loop in libalpm/add.c at line 699.  However, I am 
confused about that if loop.  The archive is extraction is in a loop:

    if(!(trans->flags & PM_TRANS_FLAG_DBONLY)) {

Why is there a need for that if?  As far as I can tell, 
PM_TRANS_FLAG_DBONLY only happens with a -Rk operation.  Is this here in 
case we want to add the -k flag to Sync operations?  Or am I missing its 
point completely...

Cheers,
Allan