Summary and Info:

Allow pacman to be invoked using an alternative configuration file. It's purpose is to allow completely seperate package databases / cache directories / log files / and other related configuration variables.

Yes, this will expand the possibilities to do partial upgrades with seperate databases that don't have full insight in all packages installed on a system. Yes, this shifts the responsibility of proper repository maintenance to the user / administrator of the system.

However, partial upgrades can already be done. Additionally, when using custom repositories, repository maintenance is already a very important part of using additional or exclusively custom repositories.


Steps to Reproduce:

None.