[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which'

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 06:40:04 EST 2009


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> When pacman queries the ownership of an object that is not a path,
> it will check in the users PATH for a match. Implements FS#8798.
>

Just one quick comment now :
The current behavior with pacman -Qo foo (with no /) will check the
current directory (well its just stat).
With the new behavior, it seems it will no longer do that. But one
workaround should be ./foo
And maybe that is fine.

Correct me if I am wrong :)


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