On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:25:48PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 07/09/2018 05:58 PM, Dmitry Kudriavtsev wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:10:41AM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote: > >> On 07/09/18 at 01:47am, Dmitry Kudriavtsev wrote: > >>> On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 05:17:32PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >>>> On 07/07/18 10:32, m...@dk0.us wrote: > >>>>> From: Dmitry Kudriavtsev <m...@dk0.us> > >>>>> > >>>>> Adds a --nolist option for package transactions. This option removes > >>>>> the list > >>>>> display of packages to be installed or removed. > >>>>> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kudriavtsev <m...@dk0.us> > >>>>> --- > >>>> > >>>> I don't think this is a good option to include. > >>> > >>> Why not? > >> > >> Blindly installing/removing packages without knowing what they are is > >> generally a bad idea. What is the use case for this feature? > > > > Installing a list of packages that are already known, mostly for use in > > scripting or with -d. > > I don't see why we should encourage people to do that, at all. > > If you desperately dislike standard output, nothing is stopping you from > using: > > yes y | pacman -S --noconfirm "${packagelist[@]}" > /dev/null 2>&1 > > Which also gets rid of the list, but with more honesty. > > Though honestly, if you're scripting this it boggles my mind that you > don't want to preserve standard output in logs that you aren't looking > at unless something bad happens, in which case you want as much > information as possible... >
Don't the transactions still get logged in the system locs if the UseSyslog preference is enabled? > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User >