FS#2530 - positive message at end

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jud (judfilm) - Saturday, 09 April 2005, 13:10 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

An idea for pacman. After the command "pacman -Syu" and no packages need updating pacman returns to shell without any notice (which is fine if you know whats going on). Is it possible for pacman to output a positive message like - "All packages are up to date." or something better?
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 06:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Nikos Kouremenos (zeppelin) - Saturday, 09 April 2005, 13:35 GMT
yses this is really nice and must be easy too or no?
Comment by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Monday, 11 April 2005, 18:17 GMT
Don't: In Unix philosophy an command shouldn't output anything, if there is no input or nothing to do. Just like "ls" doesn't output anything in an empty directory.
IMHO:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
:: apache: local version (2.0.53-3) is newer than repo version
should also only be displayed in verbose mode!

Silence is golden: http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/27320/new/unixphil.html
Jürgen
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 06:57 GMT
I'd have to agree with Jürgen. In UNIX, silence is an indication of success.

Nice suggestion though.

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