[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Feedback from installed package while searching

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 16:08:45 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Nagy Gabor<ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>
> What is wrong with printf(_(" [installed]"));?
>
> For my taste, printing [installed] when I have _older version_
> installed, a bit strange. In this case [installed: 2.0-1] would be
> better (but harder to parser).
>

Afaik, it is always safer to avoid putting non-fixed strings as the
first argument of printf.

if a bogus translation put some format strings as the translation of
installed, it could do weird things.


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