Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH RFC] DWIM if user attempts to sync on a file

2016-06-16 Thread Allan McRae
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

Re: [pacman-dev] [RFC] [PATCH] Implement a du --apparent-size equivalent

2016-06-16 Thread Allan McRae
On 17/06/16 01:37, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 13.06.2016 22:07, Alastair Hughes wrote: >>> I really don't want to provide a binary just to do this. >> >> I'm cross compiling; in that case, the host system has a different du >> than the target system > > How about implementing the functionality in s

Re: [pacman-dev] [RFC] [PATCH] Implement a du --apparent-size equivalent

2016-06-16 Thread Florian Pritz
On 13.06.2016 22:07, Alastair Hughes wrote: >> I really don't want to provide a binary just to do this. > > I'm cross compiling; in that case, the host system has a different du > than the target system How about implementing the functionality in something like awk or perl? Those should be suffic