Re: [arch-general] Which version gets installed by pacman?

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Timm Preetz <timm@preetz.us> wrote:

In standard pacman.conf this behaviour is necessary, because otherwise pacman would install testing-packages (for example) just because they have higher version.

And that wouldn't be too good in some cases.

If you want to use testing, it's recommended to use all of it, for obvious linking reasons. That's why testing appears first in pacman.conf (but is disabled by default).