[pacman-dev] [PATCH v3] Treat packages to be printed as non-ignored

[Xyne]

Xyne wrote:

>This may break simple scripts that naively parse the output (updaters,
>notifiers, downloaders, ...). While that is not officially supported there is
>really no reason to change expected behavior for this. I think a better
>approach would be to omit ignored packages unless they are explicitly included
>on the command line. Otherwise perhaps you could use a special argument to
>'--ignore' (or a custom option) to stop ignoring packages for a given operation
>(e.g. --ignore -).
>
>Both cases remain backwards compatible with past behavior and avoid surprises.
>
>Regards,
>Xyne
>
>

Just to give a concrete example of how this applies, let's say that the user has
ignored "foo". Running "pacman -Sp <group>" where foo is a member of <group>
should not include foo in the output.

It would also apply when printing groups that overlap with ignored groups.



Allan McRae wrote:


>I just realised that "pacman -Sp --ignore glibc glibc" makes little
>sense, so just -Sup case then.

In that case it doesn't, in others it does. Explicit "--ignore" options should
override command-line arguments. For example,

pacman -Sp --ignore foo $(pacman -Slq bar-repo)

where foo is a member of [bar-repo]. Of course you can run the repo list
through grep or some other filter, but it is logical to expect an "--ignore"
option to force pacman to ignore a package and I think it would be consistent
behavior.