On 7/12/20 5:05 am, Daan De Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I recently added --needed to pacman's invocation in mkosi but noticed > that even when --needed is specified, pacman still prints warning > messages for packages that it's skipping because they are already > installed. My intuition was that by enabling --needed, I was > explicitly telling pacman that there might be packages that are > already installed in the packages that I'm installing and that I want > to skip those and not be warned about them. The skipping works fine > but I still get warnings. Would it make sense to remove the skipped > warning message for packages that are already installed when --needed > is specified since the user is explicitly requesting this behavior? >
I'm on the fence here. You have explicitly asked for packages to be installed by providing them on the command line, but then --needed says they don't need installed. That does seem warning-ish to me. Allan
