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Tasklist

FS#55823 - Option to show a list of packages to update like yaourt

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by TesX (tesfabpel) - Sunday, 01 October 2017, 10:17 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 01 October 2017, 10:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.0.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Please add an option to show a list of packages to update like yaourt.
For example this is what yaourt does before invoking pacman: https://i.imgur.com/gcURHG7.png

It allows to see which packages have been updated by upstream (new version) and which packages have been updated by arch devs (new release).
It is similar to the "VerbosePkgLists" option but it is less verbose, the output occupies less width, and it is separated by new version and new release.

Steps to Reproduce:
yaourt -Syu
vs
pacman -Syu
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 01 October 2017, 10:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  man pacman.conf
Comment by TesX (tesfabpel) - Monday, 02 October 2017, 17:26 GMT
> Additional comments about closing: man pacman.conf

It is not the same as VerbosePkgList, please try it with yaourt (or view the attached image).
Thanks.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 02 October 2017, 20:53 GMT
But pacman *does* show a list of packages, and your feature request was wrong. What you really meant to ask, I guess, is "option to use the same formatting yaourt does when showing VerbosePkgLists". To which the response would still have to be "why"?

I'm guessing Allan doesn't think any of the differences you mentioned are worth having though. And yaourt can get away with being less wide since it is getting rid of a vital component of VerbosePkgLists in the download size and net change per package.

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