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

[Allan McRae]

On 18/11/10 06:59, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Evangelos Foutras<foutrelis at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Doing so can lead to broken applications after soname bumps, or major
>> version upgrades like the transition to Python 3.
>
> I have mixed feelings for sure on this. The intent is great, for
> soure. But I do -Sy<pkg>  a lot, knowing what is safe, what isn't.
> This prompting would annoy the heck out of me. This also doesn't help
> anyone that does an -Syu, cancels, and then later -S<anything>.
>

I have very strong feelings against this.  This operation is perfectly 
fine, even recommended, on a non-rolling release distro.  And we do have 
one of those using pacman (Arch Server - where I would -Sy and then 
review which packages to upgrade...).

Allan