On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:19:22 -0700
"Richard Maxwell Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dan McGee, Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Let me ask you (or any other reader) if you think the pacman manpage
> should be expanded.  Right now it says,
> 
> >       -S, --sync
> >              Synchronize  packages.  With this function you can
> > install pack- ages directly from the ftp servers, complete with
> > all  dependen- cies  required  to  run the packages.  For example,
> > pacman -S qt will download qt and all the packages it depends on
> > and  install them. You could also use pacman -Su to upgrade all
> > packages that are out of date (see below).
> 
> Seems to me before the last sentence maybe there should be a
> sentence, "However, if qt is already installed, pacman -S qt will
> upgrade qt but not upgrade the packages it depends on."

I don't have a specific wording suggestion, but basically -S will make
sure the dependencies are satisfied.  In your case, darcs' dependencies
were satisfied, a curl update didn't *need* to happen.  If darcs had
depended on a certain version of curl that wasn't installed, curl would
have been updated.

Jason

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