21 Sep
2016
21 Sep
'16
1:41 a.m.
On 09/19/2016 11:49 AM, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
What about adding a new option to pacman's '-D, --database' operator which would enable users to rename packages and add a corresponding provide field. This would empower everyone to decide on their own which packages they want in different versions and which they don't want. Pacman would handle file conflicts as usual without introducing a new kind of packages. Plus it would avoid discussions about which package should be a dummy package and which shouldn't be.
Was that meant to be some sort of a joke? Because even Debian is not that insane, AFAIK. -- Eli Schwartz