Arch Linux

Summary and Info:

The pacman is a great packages manager (the best, I think), but suffers in some aspects, those mainly related the organization of information. I think everything starts after `pacman -Su` that shows the packages to be upgraded so disorganized in screen. To organize the mess, I suggest:

1) Organize the presentation of the packages to be installed by repository and show them in alphabetical order;

2) Include the parameter (maybe "-e" ??) to update only packages from repository X (example: pacman -Syue extra ====> the "-r" parameter already exists and can not be used anymore! );

Note: It is clear that if there is dependency between packages in different repositories, the pacman should automatically force the download of the package from another repository that was not specified in parameter "-e".

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Steps to Reproduce:

$ pacman -Syu

Before implementation:

...
Target (5): pkg_a, pkg_c, pkg_b, pkg_z, pkg_d
...

After implementation:

...
Target (5):
* core(2): pkg_a, pkg_d
* extra (2): pkg_b, pkg_c
* community (1): pkg_z
...



Sorry about my english.