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authorNagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>2008-01-13 22:15:10 +0100
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-01-21 19:39:26 -0600
commit2a7101c049dd1874da09d7d120f8855c61e55809 (patch)
treecd25104f2e775be279c4c49f4cd8579b8d174dbe /doc
parentb2914bf0af388f369865859292b1c7342e785303 (diff)
New --asexplicit option
This is the symmetric of --asdeps, install packages explicitly. Documentation and completion files were updated accordingly. Added sync301.py and upgrade032.py pactest files to test this. I also made a little modification in ALLDEPS handling too. Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>
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@@ -86,11 +86,16 @@ You can also use `pacman -Su` to upgrade all packages that are out of date. See
Options
-------
*\--asdeps*::
- Install packages non-explicitly; in other works, fake their install reason
+ Install packages non-explicitly; in other words, fake their install reason
to be installed as a dependency. This is useful for makepkg and other
build from source tools that need to install dependencies before building
the package.
+*\--asexplicit*::
+ Install packages explicitly; in other words, fake their install reason to
+ be explicitly installed. This is useful if you want mark a dependency as
+ explictly installed.
+
*-b, \--dbpath* <'path'>::
Specify an alternative database location (a typical default is
``/var/lib/pacman''). This should not be used unless you know what you are