On 2016-02-14 21:37 +0000 Xyne wrote: >On 2016-02-14 15:31 -0500 >Dave Reisner wrote: > >>Note that you can now also use makepkg to list the names of the packages >>that it would generate, using the --packagelist flag. > >I am going to use that as a workaround but even after splitting apart the >components (pkgname, pkgver, arch) and making sure that the name matches, it >will require assumptions about the package archive extension (or sourcing of >makepkg.conf, but that requires knowledge of which makepkg.conf was used to be >rigorous). Nothing comes close to the cleanliness of the --pkg option. > >Incidentally, that option was also useful to avoid storing unwanted packages at >PKGDEST.
Implementing the workaround right now I've noticed that another issue with the separate invocation of pacman -U is that any dependencies installed via "makepkg -rs" are removed and then re-installed during installation with pacman, while omitting "-r" will leave makedeps.
