[pacman-dev] Questions about stderr/stdout behaviour on failures

[Allan McRae]

On 28/5/21 10:35 pm, Oskar Roesler via pacman-dev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when file conflicts in packages occur,
> why does the actual conflict get written to stdout and only an
> non-informative error message to stderr?

My guess is this is pure oversight.  The printf calls need changed to
fprintf(stderr, ...).

Can you file a bug if you do not want to make the patch yourself?

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