[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add short options for mark as deps or explicit

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:03:14AM +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>> The main (only) purpose of -D is to be able to change packages installation
>> status (deps or explicit). Having a short form offer a similar experience that
>> other main pacman option (e.g. Su).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net>
>
> The --asdeps option for -S and -U does not have a shortopt. In my
> worthess opinion, this is a bad idea, as -d for those operations is
> --nodeps.

This was my thought as well. If we are willing to use a shortopt, it
should apply to ALL top-level operations in the same fashion (or be
rejected completely), and not mislead. -Q/--query match this criteria,
but currently -d for -U/-S would be totally unexpected. So -1 from me.

I have consciously made decisions over the past 3 years to not add new
shortopts unless they are universally applicable, so this would be a
step against that. If we were to do this, we would want to remove the
-d shortopt for --nodeps in the next release, and then add these in
the following release. However, this is cumbersome as `--nodeps
--nodeps` is really silly to type out as we allow this option to be
passed twice for even more dep-ignoring behavior.

-Dan