heh, so many-many gtk2-dependant packages should have depends=('gtk2>=2..4/2.6/2.8/210/whatever') this is just unreal, nobody will want to check that stuff (because it's not trivial and consumes valuable time)
1. A bit off-topic, about packaging: * Well, obviously nobody wants to recheck existing packages... Hopefully your distro's packaging policy declares that dependencies should be filled in correctly. * If I cannot assume this, then what can I expect from the packager? Almost all projects have an INSTALL file or something which defines clearly the minimal version of its dependencies (or can be caught easily from configure.ac). * To be more concrete: with ArchLinux I had only about 3 missing depver issues for ~5 years, after reporting them, they were fixed soon. 2. Summarize my opinion: if user can select any set of packages for upgrade (see also: upcoming GUIs), I don't see why they are forced to do some shell magic to do what they want. ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/