On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > * The alpm_rmrf function is available from the frontend, which does > the same > as this function did. > > * It was worth to modify _alpm_rmrf to alpm_rmrf for pacman frontend > to be > able to use it in the future or for other frontend, so the function > declaration was moved into the api header file, named alpm.h, and the > definition of this function got a SYMEXPORT attribute. > > * The rmrf funtion calling was changed in ./src/pacman/sync.c for > alpm_rmrf > > * The _alpm_rmrf functions were changed in api for alpm_rmrf >
Why would we do that ? alpm is not a general system utility. Besides this function is not as safe as it could be. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16363
