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

[Allan McRae]

On 30/07/11 05:37, Dan McGee wrote:
> 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.
>

Agreed.  That would be fine to me.

Allan