[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Combine add and removal package list display

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 23/07/11 03:19, Dan McGee wrote:
>> * Packages are now always sorted in alpha order, rather than the
>> half-sorted,
>>   dep resolved mess we had before.
>
> I am not sure I like this...   Currently, "pacman -S foo" will always show
> "foo" as the last target.  I find that makes it clear that the rest of the
> packages are the needed dependencies.
>
> With this patch, "foo" can end up anywhere in the package listing. For a
> package with lots of dependencies, it becomes difficult to see that "foo" is
> even being installed at a quick glance.

How about a slight tweak, as I just hated the old seemingly random
order. We'll do pulled package alpha-ordered, followed by explict
alpha-ordered. This still makes my main beef, the -Syu case, print how
I want while solving your problem as well.