[pacman-dev] pacman -S on already installed package doesn't ask for reinstall

[Allan McRae]

Allan McRae wrote:
> Roman Kyrylych wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> # pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts
>> warning: ttf-ms-fonts-2.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
>>
>> It was asking user for confirmation before which I think was logical,
>> because if user just forgot he/she has this package installed - this
>> would allow to avoid creating of unnecessary .pacnew files.
>>
>> Either I missed this change or forgot about it.
>> Could someone enlighten me why this was done
>>     
> I can remember this.  Basically, it was decided that if a user did 
> "pacman -S package" then they obviously wanted the package reinstalled.  
> The thinking was: Why else would you do that if it was already 
> installed?  However, I can't find the thread/bug report I saw it in....
>   
Although maybe i dreamed that and this commit caused it...  :)
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=250331a636699561e1239e341f30f2adfebbcb43