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Flags for install/uninstall #1

Closed ralt closed 9 years ago

ralt commented 9 years ago

I propose just adding -y|--yes to force install. Or simply use something akin to apt-get install $@

Zirak commented 9 years ago

I'm for a force option, but against passing the arguments verbatim. That leads to inconsistencies, depending on what your package manager is. If one wants to do some action which requires a flag, and it makes sense for all package managers to implement, then we should support it (like --yes). Anything more esoteric means one should defer to the package manager they assume they'll be using.

ralt commented 9 years ago

Fair enough.

ralt commented 9 years ago

Is there the concept of signed packages on pacman?

Zirak commented 9 years ago

Does it ever. It's a cause of many-a weird upgrade bugs, where for instance the keyring (which is a package) got updated, but you try to install other packages first based off of the old keyring and no fun... cough Anyway, are you thinking about a flag specifying a "strictness" level?

ralt commented 9 years ago

Because debian needs both --yes and --force-yes if a repo managing the package isn't signed.

Zirak commented 9 years ago

Oh my...is this a common occurrence?

ralt commented 9 years ago

No. I encountered it because I have a custom repository (with custom packages) and I didn't want to bother signing it.

Aside from that, I haven't seen it a lot out there in the wild.

Zirak commented 9 years ago

Added -y flag in af631ed3aadf0509e53d5e3f1995309939252a41