[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Warn when synchronizing without upgrading (-Sy)

Xavier Chantry chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 22:35:27 CET 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Bahn <Thomas-Bahn at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> this patch introduces a question on every repository sync if a am right. So
> that patch also asks if you type 'pacman -Syu' ? If it is i would not vote for
> this patch, because it's another question you must acknoweledge every system
> update.
>
> If it only asks on 'pacman -Sy <package>' then its ok for me. Another
> suggestion, only print this warning and don't ask. An arch user would read the
> output of pacman and its package pre/post-scripts and is warned.
>

AFAI can see, it only asks for -Sy and -Sy <targets>


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