[pacman-dev] [PATCH 6/6] New VerbosePkgLists option

[Xavier Chantry]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jakob Gruber <jakob.gruber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/src/pacman/conf.h b/src/pacman/conf.h
>> index 92c379f..f440090 100644
>> --- a/src/pacman/conf.h
>> +++ b/src/pacman/conf.h
>> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ typedef struct __config_t {
>>        /* conf file options */
>>        unsigned short chomp; /* I Love Candy! */
>>        unsigned short showsize; /* show individual package sizes */
>> +       unsigned short verbosepkglists; /* format target pkg lists as table */
> Part of me is tempted to say we should kill showsize now. I know it
> shows up in -Qs and -Ss, but is that even useful? Opinions?
>

This reminds me there is no proper way (for scripting) to dump
specific fields of the db.
Maybe if --print-format was supported for -Ss / -Si / -Qs / -Qi, we
would have that, besides making showsize completely obsolete.