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FS#42818 - NoExtract handling could be at a lower level

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 17 November 2014, 13:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.1.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When a file is in NoExtract, it should not feature in the installed package metadata at all. (it will still be in the .MTREE file).

This would mean it would not be listed by "pacman -Ql". Multiple packages with a conflict NoExtract file could be installed alongside each other. ...
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Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Sunday, 10 May 2015, 14:44 GMT
Also the files continue to be included in the -Qi "installed size" information.
Comment by morganamilo (morganamilo) - Thursday, 14 October 2021, 07:45 GMT
> Multiple packages with a conflict NoExtract file could be installed alongside each other.

That's only true if the packages don't also conflict=(). Which is likely.

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