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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>

Plus there are other pacman commands that can mess up a system like
-Sf and -Sd and they don't promt for confirmation.