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

[Dmitry Kudriavtsev]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:10:41AM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> 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?

Installing a list of packages that are already known, mostly for use in
scripting or with -d.