[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Verbose package list now show if packages are explicit or dependencies

[Allan McRae]

On 11/05/14 00:54, Guillaume Bouchard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm reopening this discussion. A few time ago, I proposed to "grey"
> explicit package name. Finally it was judged as confusing.
> 
> Instead I propose to display only the package type during verbose
> package listing. To achieve this, I splitted the packages table into
> two tables, the one for explicit packages, and the other for
> dependencies, examples:
> 
> $ pacman  -S epiphany
> [sudo] password for guillaume:
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
> 
> Package (1)     New Version  Net Change  Download Size
> 
> extra/epiphany  3.12.0-1       6.89 MiB       1.48 MiB
> 
> Dependency (3)  New Version  Net Change  Download Size
> 
> extra/gcr       3.12.0-1       5.42 MiB       0.77 MiB
> extra/libwnck3  3.4.7-1        2.85 MiB
> extra/libxres   1.0.7-1        0.02 MiB
> 
> Total Download Size:    2.25 MiB
> Total Installed Size:  15.17 MiB
> 
> 
> $ pacman  -Rs gitg
> checking dependencies...
> 
> Package (1)  Old Version  Net Change
> 
> gitg         0.3.2-1       -1.41 MiB
> 
> Dependency (8)  Old Version  Net Change
> 
> geoclue         0.12.99-1      -1.02 MiB
> gtksourceview3  3.12.1-1       -6.78 MiB
> ...
> 
> Feedback needed ;)
> 

Anybody want to comment on this?   I do not use the verbose table so
have no opinion on whether this information is useful and if it is clear.

Allan