[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Add new --print operation for all operations

[Xavier]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>

Cool thanks for the review, looks like I have some work to do when I
have time :)

>
> OK, and now for some usability testing.
>
> $ ./src/pacman/pacman -Q
> <big list of packages>
> ...
> zope-interface 3.5.1-1
> zvbi 0.2.33-1
>
> $ ./src/pacman/pacman -Q --print
> error: no targets specified (use -h for help)
>
> So two things here- I expected --print to work and it did not, and we
> already have the standard "pkgname <space> pkgver" output that our
> default print format uses. Do we want to invent a new one with the
> default --print for remove?
>
> Oh wait, does --print even work for -Q? Now I'm all confused. :)
> $ ./src/pacman/pacman -Q --print pacman-git
> error: package "pacman-git" not found
>
> $ ./src/pacman/pacman -Q pacman-git
> pacman-git 20091018-1
>
> More unexpected behavior...
>
> $ ./src/pacman/pacman -Ss --print pacman
> core/pacman 3.3.3-1 (base)
>    A library-based package manager with dependency support
> core/pacman-mirrorlist 20090616-1 (base) [installed]
>    Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman
> extra/namcap 2.4-1 [installed]
>    A Pacman package analyzer
>
> I wanted a list of URLs for all packages that matched my pacman
> search, I did not get that...
>

Indeed, --print was not supposed to work with -Q and -Ss
only with actual install (-S or -U) and remove (-R) operations.

If I should add support for -Q and -Ss too, I will look into it.