[pacman-dev] noconfirm trivial bug - prompt printed but unused/unnecessary

[Xavier]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Brendan Hide <brendan at swiftspirit.co.za> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm still getting my head around git and pacman-dev's workflow - I know its
> not that complicated, just need a bit of time.
>
> When using --noconfirm the prompt is presented (odd part) and the user
> (rightly) is not given an opportunity to confirm:
>>
>> [ brendan at swift : 12:36:40 : ~/src/pacman ]
>> :) sudo pacman -Sc --noconfirm
>> Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
>> Do you want to remove outdated packages from cache? [Y/n]
>> <------
>> removing old packages from cache... done.
>> Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
>> Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n]                 <------
>> Database directory cleaned up
>> [ brendan at swift : 12:36:57 : ~/src/pacman ]
>> :)
>
> Best fix I can think of is to just mention that we're using a default
> because the --noconfirm flag has been used. The alternative (which is less
> informative for the user) is to not present the prompt at all.
>

If you add another sentence, it's redundant imo.
pacman already shows the default answer in upper case, so we already
know that Yes was chosen in both cases, automatically because of
--noconfirm.