Hi, On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:53:04AM +0200, Bohdan Horbeshko wrote: > the + and - suffixes are great, but some persons tend to purge packages > by default whenever possible, instead of removing them, and thus a > similar suffix for purge would be great to, to avoid a need to purge > removed packages after a complex operation. I suggest -- (double minus).
The more "standard" suffix would be "_" (as in, aptitude is using it). The main problem with it is that a bunch of UI and behaviour changes have to follow suite as a bunch of code assumes that that only one or the other happens, not both at the same time. And then there is the problem of what means "--purge foo-". Currently it means foo is purged, but if we introduce "foo_" then it "clearly" means foo is only removed, right? Except, --purge can be set by configuration, too, and would lead to situations in which things which depend on foo are purged (due to the option) while foo itself is not (due to the -)… while perhaps intended it could just be as confusing especially if it worked differently before. One tiny character, so many corner cases… and with winter^Wfreeze upon us its currently not the time to think about new features or behaviour changes (but I do want to visit that complex… its just never the right time than I remember it). Best regards David Kalnischkies
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