[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Treat packages to be printed as non-ignored

[Allan McRae]

On 13/03/13 12:17, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 03/12/13 at 06:51pm, Connor Behan wrote:
>> > Calling pacman -Sp is guaranteed not to install a package. So the user's IgnorePkg pref is still respected regardless of whether or not we print the mirror location. Therefore we might as well do so to give as much information as possible. Also fixes an edge case with devtools.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com>
>> > ---
> This is really a frontend issue.  If pacman doesn't want alpm to
> ignore packages it should just set ignorepkgs to an empty list.
> 

Agreed - since "man pacman.conf" explicitly states IgnorePkg is for
--sysupgrade.  An approach like clearing the ignore list for --print
would be acceptable.

Allan