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JustinTimperio / pacback

Advanced Version Control for Arch Linux
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Multiple packages installation should happen together #16

Closed mirh closed 4 years ago

mirh commented 4 years ago

Asking one at time which individual package versions you want to install is of course necessary But installation should happen for all at once.

First.. It's tiresome to be always confirming pacman that yes, I'm sure. Second, there's even room to break something if you are downgrading some packages that are closely connected together and some seconds/minutes pass between each one version change.

JustinTimperio commented 4 years ago

While I understand the frustration this is really not how pacback was meant to be used. Rolling back a long list of individual packages isn't something you should be doing constantly and defeats the automated nature of pacback. With the hook installed it's pretty much set and forget.

I'll take a look at this though because I think it is important to avoid any version conflicts that may happen in between individual up/downgrades.

mirh commented 4 years ago

I see. I was also imaging a "no strings attached" mode, if I can explain.

Still, it seems to me like installing-everything-at-once would be useful either way.

JustinTimperio commented 4 years ago

This is now changed.