[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2] --ignore-depends

[Jason St. John]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
> v2:
>  - Use _alpm_splitdep rather than implementing it myself (thanks to Andrew for
>    the idea)
>
> I'd love feedback on the idea/implementation (preferably from Allan) and also
> general feedback on this try at documenting it (in man pacman):
>
>> --ignore-depends provider=version,...
>>
>> Make pacman believe the package named provider with version version is
>> installed when doing dependency checks. This allows to disable certain
>> dependency checks without affecting everything the way the --nodeps option
>> does.
>

It's my preference to put double quotes around example names found in
prose (e.g. the package named "provider" with version "version").
Also, I think some users may get confused about the use of the word
"provider" instead of using the word "package", but maybe I'm
underestimating users.

Finally, I think a slight reword of the last sentence would be
beneficial. For example:
"This allows one to disable specific dependency checks without
affecting all dependency checks, which the --nodeps option does."
or
"This allows one to disable specific dependency checks without
affecting all dependency checks. To disable all dependency checking,
see the --nodeps option."

I prefer the latter simply because it is explicitly clear, but it is
more verbose, which could be seen as a bad thing.

Hope this helps.

Jason