On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 21:08, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > What is the proper procedure for sending a patch for the man pages? I've > > done some work on pacman.8 to reflect some of the wiki changes. Also > would > > it be acceptable to include in the man page that the -f option has been > > deprecated and shouldn't be used and do the same on the pacman wiki page? > > There's > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:Requests#Remove_-f_short_option_for_--force > Karol: Thanks for the link. Not quite what I was referring to. From earlier in the conversation: > now, why do you think that -f will solve every problem? -f is not for > forcing updates when dependencies are not met! > > Stop using -f. > I was only curios since I see a lot of our users using -f along with -Su > and with -Sdd lately and maybe our manual is not clear enough. I meant adding/emphasizing a warning to the man pages and the wiki page about the use of -f or --force. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
