[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] pacman: add front end support for disabled repos

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 03/07/12 10:22, Dan McGee wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:02:03AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >>> On 03/07/12 09:45, Dave Reisner wrote:
> >>>> Hook up a per-repo 'Disabled' flag in the config for users to mark repos
> >>>> as disabled. This can take a boolean value such as 'yes', 'true', or
> >>>> '1', or the similar negated 'no', 'false', or '0'.
> >>>
> >>> Why do we need this complexity?   Why not just specifying "Disabled"
> >>> disables the repo and not specifying does not...
> >>>
> >>
> >> We may not. Dan brought up the idea of making this a bit more granular,
> >> but I don't have my IRC logs to recall exactly what was mentioned... he
> >> can weigh in here.
> > 
> > Given that we have no key-only options under repos, I'm leaning
> > against having those be introduced. I've never been a fan of them in
> > the [options] section either.
> 
> OK.  But do we really need all of True/Yes/1 etc.  I just find that
> confusing compared to a single "Disabled" flag.
> 
> How about:
> Usage = All (default)
> Usage = Search Install Update
> 
> 
> Allan
> 

I think I like this.

/me starts a new branch...