On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > I'd be in favour of the less informative route. I.e. > > sudo pacman -Sc --noconfirm > Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ > removing old packages from cache... done. > Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ > Database directory cleaned up > > Note the only long operation is the "removing old packages from cache..." > which notifies the user what is being done anyway. So I think it best not > to output those messages. And if you make the "r" in "removing" a capital > like every other message in that output at the same time, that would be > good. >
In this particular case, it is fine indeed. But we have this generic question function. We could skip any printing there in case of --noconfirm, but then we would need to check that all the questions pacman can ask can be silenced. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list pacman-dev@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev