On 07/24/2018 02:48 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 05:53:00PM +0100, morganamilo wrote: >> Commit 106d0fc54 Added the usage option for databases and >> alpm_sync_newversion was restricted by USAGE_SEARCH instead of >> USAGE_UPGRADE. > > I don't recall exactly what my thinking was when I wrote this patch, but > looking at 'pacman -Qu' output right now, I think I actually I like > seeing potential upgrades, not just "actual" upgrades. > > Anyone else have an opinion?
I don't really see the utility... a search-only database will not show the upgrades in pacman -Su (even ignored packages get shown, just as a warning instead of an active transaction member). pacman -Qu should therefore (IMHO) only show those Sync packages (with [ignored] in cases, yes). When people hear about -Qu, they generally hear about it as "oh, the thing which is like -Su except it doesn't actually do the thing". Admittedly the actual thing which doesn't actually do the thing would be pacman -Sup --print-format '%r/%n %v' But then we're faced with the classic problem "print-format? no such thing, we don't support that and you should use expac, HAHAHAHA, oh wait print-format is actually useful here (surprise!)" So actually I guess in theory it's completely different, but now I'm not sure what I would specifically use this behavior for. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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