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wolk

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-02-16

Posts: 36

pacman -D no i man page

What does pacman with -D options,  i have seached manual for this switch but it wasn't there.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman -D no i man page

Its used in makepkg. When you run it as root and tell it to builddeps or syncdeps, it reads all dependencies from the PKGBUILD and pacman -D's them. Dependencies already installed are skipped, the rest installed via a command similar to -S --noconfirm. It also returns special exit codes like 126, 127 or 0.