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

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Thomas Bahn <Thomas-Bahn at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 17 November 2010, 22:20:08 schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
>> One problem I see with only printing a warning is that the user
>> doesn't have the option not to synchronize at this point and just
>> rerun pacman without the -y switch to install their package.
>
> You are right, but as Dan McGee mentioned before it implies also that some
> 'special cases' even can lead to partial updates without the warning.
>
> The quote from his email:
>> This also doesn't help anyone that does an -Syu, cancels, and then later -S
> <anything>.
>
> But i am not sure if we should catch such actions?

It is true that special cases exist. Unfortunately, I can't think of a
way to handle them.

I'm starting to think that printing a warning (like you suggested in a
previous message) is a better alternative; we won't bother people with
a question that doesn't catch all use cases, while still informing
most offenders of the possible issues.

If others agree that this is a preferred solution, I'll create a patch
tomorrow. :)