On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Giokas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:03:14AM +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >> The main (only) purpose of -D is to be able to change packages installation >> status (deps or explicit). Having a short form offer a similar experience >> that >> other main pacman option (e.g. Su). >> >> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Luttringer <[email protected]> > > The --asdeps option for -S and -U does not have a shortopt. In my > worthess opinion, this is a bad idea, as -d for those operations is > --nodeps.
This was my thought as well. If we are willing to use a shortopt, it should apply to ALL top-level operations in the same fashion (or be rejected completely), and not mislead. -Q/--query match this criteria, but currently -d for -U/-S would be totally unexpected. So -1 from me. I have consciously made decisions over the past 3 years to not add new shortopts unless they are universally applicable, so this would be a step against that. If we were to do this, we would want to remove the -d shortopt for --nodeps in the next release, and then add these in the following release. However, this is cumbersome as `--nodeps --nodeps` is really silly to type out as we allow this option to be passed twice for even more dep-ignoring behavior. -Dan
