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minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 days agoThey S is for Sync. You’re syncing a package from the repos. https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.8.en
minus-squareinzen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-222 hours agoBut what about pacman -Ss Sync search? P.S. I like pacman, just that this combination of flags is a bit weird for me personally.
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoYou wouldn’t do that, its improper syntax. You’d do #pacman -Qs, Query local packages -> Search from within this set.
minus-squareinzen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoBut I do, do that regularly. Why is it improper?
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-213 hours agoI’m just going Based on the man page I linked. s isn’t listed as a subflag of S so i’ve never thought to use it. I just checked that again and I’m totally wrong. Disregard me I guess.
minus-squareinbeesee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoEveryone knows how to read, not everyone will feel comfortable reading the flags.
minus-squareIngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoI’ve been trying to decipher this for a literal day what does this mean?
They S is for Sync. You’re syncing a package from the repos.
https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.8.en
But what about
pacman -SsSync search? P.S. I like pacman, just that this combination of flags is a bit weird for me personally.You wouldn’t do that, its improper syntax. You’d do #pacman -Qs, Query local packages -> Search from within this set.
But I do, do that regularly. Why is it improper?
I’m just going Based on the man page I linked. s isn’t listed as a subflag of S so i’ve never thought to use it.I just checked that again and I’m totally wrong. Disregard me I guess.
Everyone knows how to read, not everyone will feel comfortable reading the flags.
I’ve been trying to decipher this for a literal day what does this mean?