[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Added better colourisation support for the "-{Q, S}i" operation.

Xavion xavion.0 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 05:57:20 UTC 2016


>
> Your justification is really no justification!  "I am" is not a
> justification.  Explain why you are interested in the version when you
> run a -s or -o.  What question are you answering that you don't first
> locate by looking at the package name?
>

It's mostly when I'm wondering if the currently installed package is the
latest version, but it also happens when I'm looking for alternative
offerings of an already installed package.

For example, I usually roll with the "dropbox" package from [archlinuxfr];
however, I sometimes like to check whether the AUR's offering is more
up-to-date (which it currently is).

Hence, I run "yaourt -Ss dropbox", which uses the output from 'pacman' for
the repository entries.  Is that the justification you were looking for?
If so, can we get my "-{Q,S}i" patch included without further ado?


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