[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Ask user confirmation for -R operation, too

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 15 09:01:29 EDT 2009


Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>   
>> After commit 0da96abc, pacman always asks user confirmation for -U, so it is
>> more coherent for doing that for -R, too.
>>
>> Btw, most users use -Rs always, so they won't notice any change. In the old
>> code the -Ru operation was forgotten: Though it is not "dangerous", but the
>> target list can be changed by that operation too.
>>
>> Non-interactive scripts should use --noconfirm always (unexpected questions
>> can be asked by all transactions). [That's we should always default to the
>> safest answers.]
>>
>> I also added a pkglist != NULL sanity check (because -Ru can empty target
>> list in trans_prepare part).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
>> ---
>>  src/pacman/remove.c |   26 +++++++++++---------------
>>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>     
>
> Looks good to me, anyone else?
>   

Me too.




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