On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:31:04PM +0200, Maxim Andersson wrote: > Hi, > > Been looking into adding a new option for paccache that would remove > all uninstalled packages (and at the same time keep the default number > of the others). So, > > paccache -r --removeuninstalled > > would be the same as running > > paccache -r && paccache -ruk0
I don't think this is such a bad alternative. I'm not really fond of the idea of "aliasing" existing functionality into new flags, especially if the cost is code complexity. > But before sending in my patch/option-proposal, I would like to hear > what you think a good option name would be? I think > "removeuninstalled" is pretty descriptive, but it's a bit long.. and I > wasn't able come up with any good shorter names. Do you have the patch already? Having code makes for a far more interesting discussion than bikeshedding over the name of the flag.
