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piezoelectric

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Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 48

pacman -S --comment 'asdf'

One feature I often wish was built into pacman is a comment feature. It's not unusual for me to install something (and it's dependencies along with it) as a simple test of a new program, to help someone out with something, etc. It's equally unusual for me to forget I did this. So it would be nice to add a little custom comment when installing a package to help me make sense of certain packages' presence on my system.

Would any of you enjoy something like this?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman -S --comment 'asdf'

I don't think that sth like this will ever be implemented in pacman, but I think I've seen sth that might help you. Just wait a sec.

Edit: Here it is
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 87#p626487

Last edited by karol (2009-12-17 15:27:41)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: pacman -S --comment 'asdf'

I use "pacman -S --asdep <foo>" and then "pacman -Qqtd" to list and then remove them.

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