[pacman-dev] Pacman Roadmap

2009-06-09 Thread Allan McRae
Hi everybody, Over the past year, various discussions have occurred about nice features to be included in pacman, but many have not yet been implemented. So they didn't get lost, I made a small wiki page with them: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap Of course there are many

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: fix variable backup/restore for splitpkg

2009-06-09 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org wrote: -               eval ${indirect}=\${!var}\ +               eval ${indirect}=(\${$v...@]}) Bonus points for anyone who understands what I was doing and what is being done now...  All I know is that is works!  :) Well...

[pacman-dev] yesno - noyes for PM_TRANS_CONV_REMOVE_PKGS?

2009-06-09 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi! IMHO the default no answer is better. If pacman is invoked with --noconfirm (see scripts), it is unpredictable what will happen. By the way, I _want_ to install the specified packages, so by default, I would say no. However, then it is not possible to test the remove_unresolvable feature

Re: [pacman-dev] Idea: Merge -U and -S (half universal transaction)?

2009-06-09 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi! After killing pmsyncpkg_t, there is not much difference between -S and -U transactions. The only difference is that trans-packages come from pkgcache (-S) or they are loaded from file (-U). And of course, with -S we have an extra step, we have to actually download the packages.