[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Treat -Sc like an option

[Nagy Gabor]

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >  >From now on 'pacman -Sc target' will first clean the cache, then
> > install target...
> >
> > This seems sane, I'm just not sure how useful (or expected) this
> > behavior would be. Can you give a use case?
> >
> >
> I actually think this could cause confusion. A user could very well think
> that pacman is going to clean only the target package.
> 
> Scott
> 
To be honest, the main reason for this patch was to clean needs_transaction()
and needs_root() check. See:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-March/011382.html
However, this wasn't just selfish:
* the current code also can be fooled easily:
-Sc needs root and clean cache
-Scg DOESN'T need root and [tries to] clean cache only
* We have no clear definition what will happen on pacman -Syucg foo (*)[this is
a syntactically correct command-line now], so imho this patch doesn't hurt
anything: users still should use 'pacman -Sc' "alone", but power-users can use
it in combination with -Su to clean-up cache (to get some disk space) and THEN
do a sysupgrade.
* answer to your fear: this won't be mentioned in manual and see (*): these
command-lines are already allowed with undefined result.

Bye


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