[pacman-dev] Remove skipped warning message for already installed packages when --needed is specified?

[Allan McRae]

On 7/12/20 5:05 am, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently added --needed to pacman's invocation in mkosi but noticed
> that even when --needed is specified, pacman still prints warning
> messages for packages that it's skipping because they are already
> installed. My intuition was that by enabling --needed, I was
> explicitly telling pacman that there might be packages that are
> already installed in the packages that I'm installing and that I want
> to skip those and not be warned about them. The skipping works fine
> but I still get warnings. Would it make sense to remove the skipped
> warning message for packages that are already installed when --needed
> is specified since the user is explicitly requesting this behavior?
> 

I'm on the fence here.  You have explicitly asked for packages to be
installed by providing them on the command line, but then --needed says
they don't need installed.  That does seem warning-ish to me.

Allan