FS#30243 - [pacman] --recursive option does not work as advertized in man

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by bidossessi sodonon (bidossessi) - Monday, 11 June 2012, 08:09 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 11 June 2012, 10:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
pacman -S --recursive <package> produces the same result as pacman -Ss package, instead of recursively syncing the dependency tree.
It . The option should be either reimplemented if it's broken, or removed from pacman and the man page, as the result is obviously not what is advertized.

Additional info:
* pacman 4.0.3-2

Steps to reproduce:
pacman -S --recursive <package>
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Monday, 11 June 2012, 10:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 11 June 2012, 10:13 GMT
The --recursive operation was removed. This is a manpage bug that was already fixed.

http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=3f202c780834557557baa

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