[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Support reading package args from stdin

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:21, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >> Only occurs if no arguments were provided directly. Arguments can be
> >> separated by any amount of valid whitespace. This allows for piping into
> >> pacman from other programs or from itself, e.g.:
> >>
> >>  pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs
> >
> > What's wrong with xargs?
> You can also just do pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt)
> 

I hadn't considered xargs, but 'pacman -Xnn $()' always felt awkward to
me compared to pipes. I suppose this doesn't provide any _extra_
functionality, but it seemed like an easy enough addition for something
that's a seemingly ubiquitous feature in *nix userspace. I understand if
you consider this to be redundant.

d