17 May
2008
17 May
'08
8:52 p.m.
2008/5/6 Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>:
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).
Sometimes it is useful to have testing after all other repos though. For example, I have testing after all repos and when a dev asks to signoff some package - I just do pacman -S testing/somepackage to download only that package. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)