[pacman-dev] Add --nolist option for transactions

Andrew Gregory andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 10:10:41 UTC 2018


On 07/09/18 at 01:47am, Dmitry Kudriavtsev wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 05:17:32PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> > On 07/07/18 10:32, me at dk0.us wrote:
> > > From: Dmitry Kudriavtsev <me at dk0.us>
> > > 
> > > Adds a --nolist option for package transactions. This option removes the list
> > > display of packages to be installed or removed.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kudriavtsev <me at dk0.us>
> > > ---
> > 
> > I don't think this is a good option to include.
> 
> Why not?

Blindly installing/removing packages without knowing what they are is
generally a bad idea.  What is the use case for this feature?


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