[pacman-dev] [PATCH] '-Spp and -Supp' options were added to generate uri list without the downloaded package uris

[Xavier]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Xyne<xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:20:03 +0200
> Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a preliminary patch for this. I am not really happy with the C
>> code I wrote for doing the substitutions, but it works.
>>
>> Does it make any sense to have this for -R and -U operations ? I
>> implemented that but I don't really see any utility so I wanted to
>> drop it.
>
> I think it makes sense for -R at the moment. It would also make sense
> for -U if -U could handle dependency resolution. If you have working
> code then I think you should just leave it in for now as it will be
> good to have later.
>
>> Final concern : do you think this feature is useful when pacman asks
>> questions and prints a lot of stuff before the actual output ?
>> For many operations, the output is quite crap, and I don't know how to fix this.
>>
>> $ pacman -Rc --print gtk2
>>
>> Remove (14): tango-icon-theme-0.8.1-1  midori-0.1.9-1  firefox-3.5.2-1
>>  xulrunner-1.9.1.2-1  wireshark-1.2.1-1  mtr-0.75-4
>> libwebkit-1.1.10-2  libsoup-2.26.3-1  libunique-1.0.8-1
>> gconf-2.26.2-2  emacs-23.1-3  librsvg-2.26.0-1  audacious-2.1-1
>> gtk2-2.16.5-1
>>
>> Total Removed Size:   279.73 MB
>>
>> Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
>> tango-icon-theme 0.8.1-1
>> midori 0.1.9-1
>> firefox 3.5.2-1
>> xulrunner 1.9.1.2-1
>>
>> $ pacman -S --print base
>> base package not found, searching for group...
>> :: group base (including ignored packages):
>>     acl  attr  bash  binutils  bzip2  coreutils  cpio  cracklib
>> cryptsetup  dash  db  dbus-core  dcron  device-mapper  dhcpcd  dialog
>> diffutils  e2fsprogs  file  filesystem  findutils  gawk  gcc-libs
>> gdbm  gen-init-cpio  gettext  glibc  grep  groff  grub  gzip  hdparm
>> initscripts  iputils  jfsutils  kbd  kernel-headers  kernel26
>> kernel26-firmware  klibc  klibc-extras  klibc-kbd
>> klibc-module-init-tools  klibc-udev  less  libarchive  libfetch
>> libgcrypt  libgpg-error  libpcap  libusb  licenses  logrotate  lvm2
>> lzo2  mailx  man-db  man-pages  mdadm  mkinitcpio  mlocate
>> module-init-tools  nano  ncurses  net-tools  pacman  pacman-mirrorlist
>>  pam  pciutils  pcmciautils  pcre  perl  popt  ppp  procinfo  procps
>> psmisc  readline  reiserfsprogs  rp-pppoe  sdparm  sed  shadow
>> sysfsutils  syslog-ng  sysvinit  tar  tcp_wrappers  texinfo  tzdata
>> udev  usbutils  util-linux-ng  vi  wget  which  wpa_supplicant
>> xfsprogs  zlib
>> :: Install whole content? [Y/n]
>> kernel-headers 2.6.30.5-1
>> tzdata 2009l-1
>> glibc 2.10.1-4
>> attr 2.4.43-1
>> acl 2.2.47-2
>> ncurses 5.7-2
>
>
> Hmmmm... that's a good point. It might seem superfluous but I think
> it's good to keep that. It would enable scripts to handle the dialogue
> through a pipe and then easily parse the output so I see a utility in
> it. It would probably be less useful for the user directly though, but
> even then it would be interesting for some dialogues to see which
> dependencies some of the group members will pull in (or cascadingly
> remove). Consider the DE groups for example. They should pull in other
> packages that are not part of the group dialogue.
>
>

That does not go well with my idea that print operations should imply
noconfirm though (see attached patch and commit log).
I guess this requires further thinking and discussion.

I also forgot to mention that I don't like the group interactivity ,
but that is another problem.
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