Am Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 17:44:48 schrieb Ionut Biru:
What do you think if we work on some kind of policy that recommends strict versioned deps for packages in the base group and none for everything else?
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This way we could avoid any major damage (caused by users, mirror problems or even our fault) but on the other hand does not introduce complexity and other problems for non-base packages.
i think in this way we will have major breakage. For example: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18051 if bash had an extended version on readline dependency he wouldn't trash his system. The examples can be a lot. External modules(which are in extra) they have kernel26>=2.6.32 kernel26<2.6.33 just to avoid breakage.
If you had read my proposal you would have noticed that this would have made this breakage impossible; bash is in the base group. And I think we can add kernel modules here, too. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre