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

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:53:56PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> 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. :)
> 

Can't we just let Darwin prevail? You don't keep touching the stove
after the first time you find out it's hot... or maybe you do...

dave