It's simple, but the switches are rather odd. I get the point of S, Y, U etc... and then the minor options of yu etc... but it's rather arbitrary in practice.

It's simple, but the switches are rather odd. I get the point of S, Y, U etc... and then the minor options of yu etc... but it's rather arbitrary in practice. Note: -S isn't "install," it's for syncing which does all manner of things including installs, but not removals (oddly enough). It's little things like this that bother me about pacman.