[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add VerboseUpgradeInfo Option

[Xavier]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:44:17PM -0400, Justin Lampley wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, my only goal is to get old version listed somewhere in the
> output if possible, since I would find that quite useful.  So, I would
> be up for coding any ideas that would be acceptable to accomplish that.
>   I am in agreement with what I think Xavier was saying, have just one
> output for upgrade which would be the columned output.  This would
> eliminate the code clutter caused by adding in this option, but if I
> remember correctly, Dan you were against that before since you liked the
> current output.
> 

As Dan reminded me, there is also the problem with a big number of packages,
for example with 100 targets or more. This can happen when there is a box you
don't upgrade often. Or when installing a big group like gnome or kde, with
all their deps.