[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/1] Introduce "AssumeInstalled" option in the config file

[Damjan Georgievski]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 03:35, Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/03/20 at 12:17pm, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 19:13, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 8/30/20 1:07 PM, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:
> > > > I have had at least two or three use cases for this option,
> > > > * one has been since I always have to type
> > > >   pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts when plasma-integration is updated
> > > > * `pacman -Syu --assume-installed perl` since it's needlesly pulled by openssl
> > > >   and I didn't need it for containers and similar
> > > >
> > > > Having this in the config file allows to use the option together with pacstrap too.
> > > >
> > > > Please review and if the change is acceptable suggest what else needs to be added
> > >
> > > I'm not sure it's a good idea to encourage this in the general case.
> > > Supporting it only as a command-line option is still useful since it can
> > > help resolve certain types of manual itervention.
> >
> > maybe I should remove it from etc/pacman.conf.in so in essence it can
> > be a hidden option?
> >
> > I still think that CLI options should be able to be specified in a
> > config file (or possibly env vars).
>
> Without a better use case, I'm -1 on this.  --assume-installed was
> intended for ignoring individual dependencies in exceptional
> circumstances, not permanently ignore a dependency you don't like.
> The preferred way of dealing with that, should you feel the need, is
> with a meta package.

and how do I plug that into pacstrap? custom repo? that seems like a
much bigger overkill :/

-- 
damjan