[pacman-dev] pacman -D --help output
Dan McGee
dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue May 18 19:22:58 EDT 2010
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Saw this when I was playing some more with -D today.
>
>> ./src/pacman/pacman -D --help
> usage: lt-pacman {-D --database} <options> <package(s)>
> options:
> --asdeps mark packages as non-explicitly installed
> --asexplicit mark packages as explicitly installed
> --config <path> set an alternate configuration file
> --logfile <path> set an alternate log file
> --noconfirm do not ask for any confirmation
> --noprogressbar do not show a progress bar when downloading files
> --noscriptlet do not execute the install scriptlet if one exists
> -v, --verbose be verbose
> --debug display debug messages
> -r, --root <path> set an alternate installation root
> -b, --dbpath <path> set an alternate database location
> --cachedir <dir> set an alternate package cache location
> --arch <arch> set an alternate architecture
>
>
> Are some of these options used with -D, or can they be removed? I am
> thinking of --noprogressbar, --noscriptlet, --arch, --noconfirm (?).
I think these show with every operation; they make no more sense with
-Q either, right?
That code is a bit of fun; if someone wants to fix it up a bit to make
it show saner option lists then that would be pretty cool.
-Dan
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