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deprecate --force in favor of --overwrite

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--force is widely misunderstood and the same effect can now be achieved
with --overwrite, which is better named and can be used more safely.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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Andrew Gregory 2017-04-09 20:42:02 -04:00 • committed by Allan McRae
parent 04d211effa
commit 13ec13c85e
2 changed files with 2 additions and 9 deletions
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doc/pacman.8.txt
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@ -237,14 +237,6 @@ Transaction Options (apply to '-S', '-R' and '-U')
Upgrade Options (apply to '-S' and '-U')[[UO]]
----------------------------------------------
*\--force*::
Bypass file conflict checks and overwrite conflicting files. If the
package that is about to be installed contains files that are already
installed, this option will cause all those files to be overwritten.
Using '\--force' will not allow overwriting a directory with a file or
installing packages with conflicting files and directories.
This option should be used with care, ideally not at all.
*\--asdeps*::
Install packages non-explicitly; in other words, fake their install reason
to be installed as a dependency. This is useful for makepkg and other

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src/pacman/pacman.c
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@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ static void usage(int op, const char * const myname)
switch(op) {
case PM_OP_SYNC:
case PM_OP_UPGRADE:
addlist(_(" --force force install, overwrite conflicting files\n"));
addlist(_(" --overwrite <path>\n"
" overwrite conflicting files (can be used more than once)\n"));
addlist(_(" --asdeps install packages as non-explicitly installed\n"));
@ -708,6 +707,8 @@ static int parsearg_upgrade(int opt)
}
switch(opt) {
case OP_FORCE:
pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_WARNING,
_("option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead\n"));
config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_FORCE;
break;
case OP_OVERWRITE_FILES: