On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:55, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 22:17, Karol Blazewicz < > karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Would it be better to make both sections > > read ( pacman -Sy then pacman -S package_name or pacman -Su )? > > 'pacman -Sy foo' or alternatively 'pacman -Sy' followed by 'pacman -S > foo' is a bad idea: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89328 > As usual I don't speak the same language as most people. My update procedure is: $ pacman -Sy < syncing databases> $ pacman -Su When I install a package its: pacman -Ss pkgname Then allow pacman to take care of deps. In my example above I should have separated the two and I wrote it wrong because of that. Installing should not be combined with syncing the database. However, I don't like pacman -Syu either. The wiki and the man page differ for syncing and installing which could also be confusing. >From the examples section from the current man pages for pacman(8). Examples pacman -Syu gpm Update package list, upgrade all packages, and then install gpm if it wasn?t already installed. Pacman 4.0.1 2011-11-20 PACMAN(8) Which is, as you pointed out, is wrong and so does the wiki. I'm trying to cover to many topics at once, so I'll stick to the man page for now. Sorry for the noise. Myra Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
