[pacman-dev] [PATCH] New --asexplicit option

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/1/12, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>:
> >From 99a8136cb82d75795a3224baf09ab5ca728e6bd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:08:03 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] New --asexplicit option
>
> This is the brother of --asdeps, install packages explicitly.
> Documentation and completion files were updated accordingly.
> Added sync301.py and upgrade032.py pactest files to test this.
>
> I also made a little modification in ALLDEPS handling too.
>
> A typo was also fixed in the manual.

Can you give an example of --asexplicit usage?

For --asdeps (as I see it):
if one did -Rd pkg (or replaced with pkg2 that conflicts/privides pkg)
then -U/-S pkg --asdeps will restore the "installed as a dependency of
another package" status.

But for --asexplicit I'm a bit confused.
I can think only about -S pkg --asexplicit when pkg
_is_already_installed_ as a dependency - that would turn that package
to "explicitly installed".
But this is the same as -Rd then -S... :-/
Please enlighten me.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)