[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] New feature: files verification

[changaco]

Xavier wrote :
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:13 PM, changaco<changaco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you ignore the permission denied you will ignore missing files that are in protected directories. -Qk should be run as root.
> >
> 
> When you run it as root, you don't get permission denied, do you? So
> ignoring it doesn't change anything.
> 
> However, when you run as user, not ignoring permission denied will
> report wrongly missing files.

What I meant is that silent errors are bad, we can either force -Qk to be run as root or leave it like it is but silently ignoring potential problems is not a good idea IMHO.