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#1 2009-05-09 18:22:55
- u_no_hu
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pacman -Quq ... please stfu
1) Why doesn't pacman -Quq just keep quite and print a list of packages ?
2) Is it because of any technical limitation or just because nobody has felt the need?
3) Will a patch for that be accepted?
4) How complex will the change be for somebody new to pacman code ?
5) Is there any other method to get a list of upgradable packages without ugly output parsing
More questions pending in queue. 
PS: Suggestions to send this to pacman-dev will be redirected to /dev/null .
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#2 2009-05-09 18:29:02
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#3 2009-05-09 18:29:53
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Re: pacman -Quq ... please stfu
from pacman man-page
-q, --quiet
Show less information for certain query operations. Search will
only show package names and not version, group, and description
information; a bare query will only show package names rather than
names and versions.
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#4 2009-05-09 18:42:34
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Re: pacman -Quq ... please stfu
from pacman man-page
-q, --quiet
Show less information for certain query operations. Search will
only show package names and not version, group, and description
information; a bare query will only show package names rather than
names and versions.
How is that relevent to what i asked?
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#5 2009-05-09 18:56:32
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Re: pacman -Quq ... please stfu
5) Yeah, vote for this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14208
In the meantime you can also take a look at my bash-xyne-common_functions and perl-xyne-arch packages. Both of those contain functions for getting a clean upgrade list using bash and perl, resp. Both can handle i18n versions of pacman.
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#6 2009-05-09 20:41:19
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Re: pacman -Quq ... please stfu
Seems like this is fixed in git...But i dont see any commit messages regarding this....
1 post ,5 comments and 30 minutes of my life wasted. 
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