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folatt

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 96

Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

Is there a way to hide this output?

They're annoying to me. I want my script's output to look clean, only mention which programs have been installed, and not filled with suggestions. It's easier to spot flaws in my script this way.

Last edited by folatt (2015-09-12 17:29:23)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

> Is there a way to hide this output?

With pacman? No.

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Webbeh

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Registered: 2012-07-08

Posts: 49

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

Use ABS and build your own.

Comment out lines 1235-1239 and 1257-1261 (in 4.2.1) in src/pacman/util.c

They should look like this :

if(optstrings) {
 printf(_("New optional dependencies for %s\n"), alpm_pkg_get_name(newpkg)); 
 unsigned short cols = getcols();
 list_display_linebreak("   ", optstrings, cols);
}

if(optstrings) {
 printf(_("Optional dependencies for %s\n"), alpm_pkg_get_name(pkg));
 unsigned short cols = getcols();
 list_display_linebreak("   ", optstrings, cols);
}

There are other lines matching this in test/pacman/tests/query010.py and query011.py, as well as in src/pacman/package.c, don't know if you need to remove them or not.

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

Is there a way to hide this output?

They're annoying to me. I want my script's output to look clean, only mention which programs have been installed, and not filled with suggestions. It's easier to spot flaws in my script this way.

https://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/pyalpm.git/

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

Have you tried using expac?

snakeroot

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Registered: 2012-10-06

Posts: 164

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

Can't you just strip the lines out with sed?

sed -e '/^Optional dependencies/ d' -e '/^   /d'

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: Get rid of pacman's "Optional dependencies for.." messages

What does your script do?

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