[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Don't display filename on -Qip operation.

[Nagy Gabor]

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:23:49 +0200 -n
Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> írta:

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >From cafa4977a0639ebb30ed20974ad86bf404ca5044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> >> >2001
> >> From: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:25:40 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH] Don't display filename on -Qip operation.
> >>
> >> Some previous commits apparently broke the get_filename function
> >> for package loaded with pkg_load (on a -Qip operation), so this
> >> field is always empty now.
> >> It would be easy to fill the pkg->filename field in pkg_load, but
> >> what is the point?
> > Because it would be correct for libalpm to fill this field- remember
> > there could be other frontends. So I think we need to take the
> > correct approach rather than the easy approach. :)
> >
> 
> It is not clear to me which is the correct approach because of this :
> 
> "Besides, on a normal -Qi operation, the filename is not displayed
> either because this information is not stored in the local database."
> 

A bit offtopic:
To be honest, I never understood the logic here. -Qip would be -Ui or
something like this in my mind.

Bye