[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] wip: pacman: rework the UI of -F

[Allan McRae]

On 3/2/19 4:42 am, morganamilo wrote:
> Reworks the UI of -F according to FS#47949
> 
> In short -F replaces both -Fs and -Fo.
> --regex/-x has been replaced with --search/-s.
> 
> Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch is WIP. Functional changes made,
> documentation still needs to be changed.
> 
> Additionally I think https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47949#comment143477
> Is a good idea and I will probably be included in v2
> 

I'm OK with the changes (without having done a review of your code...).
 However, I think we need to work on the output.


Old:
$ pacman -Fo opt/
opt/ is owned by core/filesystem 2018.12-2
opt/ is owned by extra/bullet 2.88-1
opt/ is owned by extra/postgresql-old-upgrade 10.6-1
opt/ is owned by community/9base 6-6
opt/ is owned by community/aspnet-runtime 2.2.1+102-1
...

New:
$ ./src/pacman/pacman -F opt/
core/filesystem 2018.12-2 (base) [installed]
    opt/
extra/bullet 2.88-1
    opt/
extra/postgresql-old-upgrade 10.6-1
    opt/
...


So the new output follows the old -Fs, which was good when the filepath
was different for each match.  But it not great for some situations
now...  That output remains good for the new -Fs (rainbow issues being
ignored!), but a rethink is needed for the new -F operations.

Allan