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

[Xavier]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 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.
>


It's exactly for that second case, and it can indeed probably be 
achieved with -Rd then -S.
But it would be possible without using -Rd, so it would be nicer.