weidu --ask-only

[mickabouille]

Does anyone know how the --ask-only weidu option is supposed to work?

I tries to use it on cdtweaks, for example

weidu  cdtweaks/setup-cdtweaks.tp2  --language 0  --ask-only 4020

But in every case I always get the questions

Would you like to display the readme? [Y]es [N]o

N

Would you like to display the components from [Cosmetic Changes]?
[Y]es, [N]o?

 

Even though it (probably) shouldn't ask either of these question ask I specifically ask to ask only for the designated component?

[CamDawg]

I suspect GROUPs bypass this mechanic. I think ask-only is based on the same code that prompts WeiDU to ask 'ask about components that are already/not installed'. Using GROUP disables those prompts, so it looks like it also does it to ask-only.

If you're just looking to install, or reinstall, one component, --force-install-list works fine and is what I use for testing. --force-uninstall-list (for a selected list) or just --uninstall (for everything) work for removing it.

[mickabouille]

Well, no, the example I gave was really simple to try to explain my problem.

I'm already using --force-install-list in other  (not related) cases, for example like that https://github.com/mleduque/modda/blob/99779522b0e72f8e5c0a63627c2a74aaadae2cea/modda-lib/src/run_weidu.rs#L75

What I am really trying to do is have a list of components and have weidu ask for each if they should be installed.

I could do it outside and just feed the list to weidu with --f-i-l but just detecting if the component is installable (REQUIRE_*, FORBID_COMPONENT etc.) is... not that easy.

For example, how would I tell weidu : ask me only about the components in the "Rule Changes" group?