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authorAndrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>2015-11-02 02:42:01 +0100
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2015-11-04 05:50:57 +0100
commit08b0b6de96243a67b6db095f760e0c2b22ef4536 (patch)
treee3ea8518b42894a5420d09c8779eda9fa216f50c /src/pacman/remove.c
parent556c56d4d573655023bb26c47c57fddbb1a36477 (diff)
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add detail to broken dependency errors
The difference between a sync target having an unmet dependency and breaking a dependency for an installed package is a common source of confusion. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/pacman/remove.c')
-rw-r--r--src/pacman/remove.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pacman/remove.c b/src/pacman/remove.c
index 069f2363..e41e7f52 100644
--- a/src/pacman/remove.c
+++ b/src/pacman/remove.c
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ int pacman_remove(alpm_list_t *targets)
for(i = data; i; i = alpm_list_next(i)) {
alpm_depmissing_t *miss = i->data;
char *depstring = alpm_dep_compute_string(miss->depend);
- colon_printf(_("%s: requires %s\n"), miss->target, depstring);
+ colon_printf(_("%s: removing %s breaks dependency '%s'\n"),
+ miss->target, miss->causingpkg, depstring);
free(depstring);
alpm_depmissing_free(miss);
}