Arch Linux

Usage is currently weirdly implemented in some places. There's a couple of issues I've noticed with it.

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alpm_sync_get_new_version() doesn't support usage and has to be managed by the front end.

Also the front end is kind of wrong about this

[testing] has foo-3 with Usage = Sync
[core] has foo-2 with Usage = All
[local] has foo-1

pacman -Syu wants to update to foo-2
pacman -Qu says foo-1 -> foo-3 [ignored]

Any Ideas? If alpm_sync_get_new_version() respected usage then we couldn't print the version it would upgrade to.

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There's also no real usage support for groups.

This could be filtered in the front end but really should be in the back end.

This could be done by having alpm_db_get_group() allocate a group on call that is filtered by usage.


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Lack of a Usage = None option.

This is not really needed at the moment and was closed in  FS#58871 . But if  FS#16132 
is implemented then this would make sense.

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alpm_find_dbs_satisfier() only works with Usage = Install | Upgrade

This is due to the function calling find_deps internally where it does make sense.
find_deps should probably take a flag for "is this for a transaction or user call"
where it would check Usage = Search instead?

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Packages can still be queried for without Usage = Search.

This depends on how you think of Usage = Search. Should Search also cover pacman -Si?
Should there be a separate Usage = Query? Or do we not care.

I think a simple aproch would be to have alpm_db_get_pkgcache() return null without
Usage = Query/Search.

Maybe alpm_db_get_pkgcache() should return null without Usage = Search