On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Martti Kühne <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a suggestion to make, concerning that cache cleaning topic of > [1]. Pacman itself seems to cover some cache cleaning functionality > with -Sc (I noticed when updating the config file). Would it not make > sense to move that out into little scripts which in turn are called by > pacman internally through the CleaningMethod (and transform that one > into a shell command)? > Another way would be adding the options > > CleaningMethod = CleanupScript > CleanupScript = /path/to/my/cache_vacuum_cleaner > > Letting CleaningMethod = CleanupScript accept a second parameter, like > CleaningMethod = CleanupScript <file> would look even nicer, but might > break pacman's coding guidelines. > That way everyone could staple his own cache cleaning script to > pacman. If the idea is sort of accepted, I could look into the issue > myself, even.
Seems a bit overkill when people can just call a different command. I'd like to stay KISS here, and adding a whole script-invoking set of code to the cleanup stuff seems a bit overkill. 4.0.0 will have a new paccache cleaning script [1] in contrib/. -Dan [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/contrib/paccache.in
