[pacman-dev] change to option handling for --debug and -v

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:10:58PM -0400, Ray Kohler wrote:
> I noticed a change in the way 3.5 processes some of its command-line
> flags: It used to be that --debug and -v were handled immediately,
> such that their initial output appeared before pacman complained of a
> usage error. Now, it errors out immediately.
> 
> This may seem like an unimportant case, but it actually breaks pkgfile
> from pkgtools, which runs both "pacman -v" and "pacman --debug"
> without any further arguments (so it can parse the output). As I
> haven't seen any bug report, any update to pkgfile from Daenyth, or
> any other comment, I thought I'd ask if this was intentional, and
> whether it is pacman, or pkgfile, that ought to change.

I worked with Daenyth to resolve this back in January:

https://github.com/Daenyth/pkgtools/commit/4f7ce135cd942c77679e9212fb0ca98f4e354d9e

> 
> I found it actually easy to work around, by modifying pkgfile to use a
> -Q main operation in both of these cases.
> 
> If I haven't made myself clear, try doing just "pacman -v" or "pacman
> --debug" on both 3.4.x and 3.5.0.
> 

Personally, I'm not sure how important this is given that pkgfile got
bitten by parsing something it shouldn't be parsing. I'd actually vote
to move output generated by -v into --debug, since the verbose flag is
_only_ used for this one output.

dave