Re: [pacman-dev] Some undocumented things

Dan McGee wrote:

This seems like a feature introduced to solve a problem the wrong way. If people didn't release broken packages, this really wouldn't be necessary.

Any reason not to just kill it completely?

No, as Nathan said, it's broken. And I think it's not possible to fix it with the current sync dbs, so we might as well remove it. And the implementation is rather simple anyway.