On 16/06/16 10:01, Andrew Eikum wrote: > I get bit by this fairly often when I build AUR packages. From my > perspective as a user, the distinction between -U and -S seems > irrelevant: I just want to install this package. So let's just have > pacman offer to Do What I Mean and install the files if I use -S when I > should have used -U. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <cold...@fastmail.com> > > --- > > RFC because this lacks tests and maybe UI polish, but I thought I'd see > if there's interest in this change before I put more effort into it.
I am interested... I have a more general comment. Why do we distinguish between -S and -U at all? @Andrew: you are looking at unified transactions. Do you think merging -S and -U makes sense. Allan