[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Remove rmrf function from frontend

[Xavier]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>        * The alpm_rmrf function is available from the frontend, which does the same
>        as this function did.
>
>        * It was worth to modify _alpm_rmrf to alpm_rmrf for pacman frontend to be
>        able to use it in the future or for other frontend, so the function
>        declaration was moved into the api header file, named alpm.h, and the
>        definition of this function got a SYMEXPORT attribute.
>
>        * The rmrf funtion calling was changed in ./src/pacman/sync.c for alpm_rmrf
>
>        * The _alpm_rmrf functions were changed in api for alpm_rmrf
>

Why would we do that ? alpm is not a general system utility.

Besides this function is not as safe as it could be.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16363