[pacman-dev] Case sensitive options in pacman.conf

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 18:23:31 EDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:16:58PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> 
> i don't think anybody uses IGNOREPKG but if you type manually (and you
> know that it's case-insensiteve) then it's possible that you type
> ignorepkg. speaking of options which are not by default in the pacman
> config.

Well, Nagy already proposed to add all options in pacman.conf, but it might
not be accepted for the arch pacman package.
Even if it isn't, I don't think that's a big problem. pacman will fail saying
ignorepkg is an unknown keyword, and the user should be able to figure out
his mistake from there.




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