On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 19:13, Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 8/30/20 1:07 PM, Дамјан Георгиевски wrote: > > I have had at least two or three use cases for this option, > > * one has been since I always have to type > > pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts when plasma-integration is > > updated > > * `pacman -Syu --assume-installed perl` since it's needlesly pulled by > > openssl > > and I didn't need it for containers and similar > > > > Having this in the config file allows to use the option together with > > pacstrap too. > > > > Please review and if the change is acceptable suggest what else needs to be > > added > > I'm not sure it's a good idea to encourage this in the general case. > Supporting it only as a command-line option is still useful since it can > help resolve certain types of manual itervention.
I agree that the option is a bit heavy handed (the cli one too) - but these situations will arise (unneeded deps), and I was wondering about the pacstrap use-case and couldn't think of anything better. > One alternative would be to create a dummy package providing it. > > That being said, I'm not necessarily saying this must be rejected... > > aside: for perl, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887 I know that issue (hint: see the reporter) :) -- damjan
