> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > P.S. Is there some option --pretend I might have missed? What I > > need is to get exactly the same actions of "pacman -S blah" or > > "pacman -Su" until the Y/N prompt, as non-root user. > > Regarding this issue, it's the first I tried to fix since I didn't > want to run my random changes as root. Fortunately I accidentaly > found about -p option (--print-uris) which does exactly what I need, > so I quickly hacked a -P (--pretend) version for sync operations, > which runs as user and only outputs package list and sizes. > > I /think/ that this functionality is required by packagekit, so that > it can automatically notify the user when updates become available. I > remember on fedora something similar is "yum check-update". > > Ofcourse it would be much nicer if it worked for all operations, not > only sync. For example in a recursive remove it could notify the user > of all packages that would be removed, the size to be freed etc > without needing root or locking the db. But I'll skip that part, > since my focus is elsewhere. > > > What do you think? > Dimitris
What do you think about Xav's --print patch: http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/xavier/pacman.git/log/?h=print Bye