Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/4] add pacman-conf utility

2018-01-17 Thread Allan McRae
On 18/01/18 15:29, Allan McRae wrote: > On 18/01/18 14:59, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 14/01/18 02:49, Andrew Gregory wrote: >>> Parsing pacman's configuration file is non-trivial and extremely >>> difficult to do correctly from scripts; even our own do it incorrectly. >>> pacman-conf is a dedicated t

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/4] add pacman-conf utility

2018-01-17 Thread Allan McRae
On 18/01/18 14:59, Allan McRae wrote: > On 14/01/18 02:49, Andrew Gregory wrote: >> Parsing pacman's configuration file is non-trivial and extremely >> difficult to do correctly from scripts; even our own do it incorrectly. >> pacman-conf is a dedicated tool specifically to allow scripts to parse >

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/4] add pacman-conf utility

2018-01-17 Thread Allan McRae
On 14/01/18 02:49, Andrew Gregory wrote: > Parsing pacman's configuration file is non-trivial and extremely > difficult to do correctly from scripts; even our own do it incorrectly. > pacman-conf is a dedicated tool specifically to allow scripts to parse > config files, getting the same value that

[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/4] add pacman-conf utility

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Gregory
Parsing pacman's configuration file is non-trivial and extremely difficult to do correctly from scripts; even our own do it incorrectly. pacman-conf is a dedicated tool specifically to allow scripts to parse config files, getting the same value that pacman itself would use. Signed-off-by: Andrew G