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From: Rural Florida

Registered: 2008-12-12

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why doesnt pacman use .pac?

I'm just wordering, it seems like the logical thing would be to give pacman its own file extention. Not just .pac, anything. I'm not complaining, I just need a reason.

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tomk

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

The reason is there is no need. Arch packages are gzipped tarballs, so the extension is tar.gz.

lucke

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

And it makes it obvious that you actually can unpack them like a regular tar.gz archive, should the need arise.

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

a pac file is a proxy auto configure file (use by browsers), by the way.

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ash

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

its allready .pkg.tar.gz

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

a pac file is a proxy auto configure file (use by browsers), by the way.

you googled that

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

a pac file is a proxy auto configure file (use by browsers), by the way.

you googled that

I doubt it.

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lucke

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

It's google that uses cactus, not the other way around.

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Because a package is a gzipped tarball.

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

It wouldn't make any sense, frankly. Creating a whole new extension for something that is already handled well by another filetype. It makes things more complicated, honestly.

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Pierre

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Also, it will make thing easier when we add support for lzma/xz in future versions.

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sand_man

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Also, it will make thing easier when we add support for lzma/xz in future versions.

So this is planned now?

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Pierre

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Thanks to libarchive makepkg/pacman supports anything libarchive does. So once there is lzma support in libarchive it should be easy to build lzma compressed packages.

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

patches for makepkg welcome...

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z.s.tar.gz

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From: Rural Florida

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Alight. I guess that makes sense. Is there any way to create a sort of alias to where I can use .whatever on my system? I mainly just don't like typing *.pkg.* all the time.

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lucke

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

I have that in my zshrc:

compctl -g '*.pkg.tar.gz' + -g '*' pacman -U

In effect shell completion only shows pkg.tar.gz files after I write "pacman -U".

z.s.tar.gz

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From: Rural Florida

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

is that for bash? now that I think of it, I can just do without.

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lucke

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

That's for zsh. bash-completion package might provide something similar.

fumbles

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Since when does *nix care about what extention you give something?

sand_man

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Since when does *nix care about what extention you give something?

Excellent point. You should know what files you are feeding pacman.

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tomk

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Re: why doesnt pacman use .pac?

Alight. I guess that makes sense. Is there any way to create a sort of alias to where I can use .whatever on my system? I mainly just don't like typing *.pkg.* all the time.

+1 for shell completion. I don't think I've ever typed *.pkg.* since I started using Arch.