...and all I wanted to do was find out why my account was locked, and possibly get it unlocked so I could update a single package after getting an alert on it, and alternatively have someone mark the package as orphaned if I couldn't. I think I regret my decision. You know, my apologies for not realizing, despite spending loads of time avoiding -git packages, that -git packages don't follow the same packaging guidelines as other packages. I should have known that 'pkgver' wasn't what to pay attention to, but rather I should have reviewed the VCS package guidelines. Seeing the output of 'pacman -Qi expac-git' would have told me that the problem was me, not the package, even though expac-git at the time had a comment on there questioning whether the package's history had been erased. Running into the error and not knowing the solution on my own and not being willing to hunt down the problem but rather posting to aur.archlinux.org in hopes of some guidance from fellow users was surely my sign that I wasn't smart enough to use an AUR helper, and probably that after years of using Arch, that I probably shouldn't even be using Arch. Message received. I mean...I understand where you're coming from, but "users should be turing-complete" is part of why I chose to not use aurman. That's not a ding on them or their work, because it's an awesome package manager, but they take aggro behavior toward users to an extreme. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:31 PM Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
If you are using the AUR, you are expected to read and know some things. Not using a AUR helper is a perogative and I don't know what you want to imply by my solution is to not use aurman. To be honest, if you can't install it, you can't use it. -- Regards Jagan PUBKEY: https://j605.tk/pgp