[pacman-dev] pacman -Q --print

Xavier Chantry chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 23:30:34 CET 2010


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> I have a minor comment on pacman --print:
> pacman -Q --print is the same as pacman -Qp, so the result of "pacman
> -Qi evince --print" is 'error: package "evince" not found', because
> pacman searches for 'evince' package file. Clearly, it is stupid to use
> --print with -Q, but pacman shows that option with -Qh.
>
> I think we should not show "--print" with all -h operations, this is
> needless with (not yet implemented) -Dh, too. Then I think we can
> forget about my minor comment above.
>

You are right. A patch would be very nice.


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