On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/07/11 03:19, Dan McGee wrote: >> * Packages are now always sorted in alpha order, rather than the >> half-sorted, >> dep resolved mess we had before. > > I am not sure I like this... Currently, "pacman -S foo" will always show > "foo" as the last target. I find that makes it clear that the rest of the > packages are the needed dependencies. > > With this patch, "foo" can end up anywhere in the package listing. For a > package with lots of dependencies, it becomes difficult to see that "foo" is > even being installed at a quick glance.
How about a slight tweak, as I just hated the old seemingly random order. We'll do pulled package alpha-ordered, followed by explict alpha-ordered. This still makes my main beef, the -Syu case, print how I want while solving your problem as well.
