On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 15:24 +0530, phanisvar das wrote:
On 08/27/2014 02:53 PM, Temlin Olivér wrote:
It's a policy to keep users from learning bad things. You should never suggest --force or a package from AUR unless you attach a big fat warning, otherwise it would mean to encourage them to do it in other (seemingly indifferent) cases, eg. updating filesystem with --force can mess things up pretty badly.
you can always suggest to remove the file(s) in question manually, or better, move to another location, then install w/o "--force". sounds better, makes it more clear what's happening, and doesn't invite trouble in the future.
Moving and if everything is ok removing files is what I do, if such an issue happens with AUR PKGBUILDS. I should have warned that the --force option is just a workaround that IMO is ok for this situation.