Re: [pacman-dev] pacman cold caches performance, too much stat()ing

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Nagy Gabor wrote:

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depends files are read in order to ensure that the upgraded package won't break any "old" dependencies.

Example: local foo requires bar=2.0 (which is installed) Then "pacman -S bar" is not allowed (if bar in sync has different version).

I just noticed that local depends are read even when installing a new package (not upgrading an old one). Why is this for?

How about this example: pacman -S foo, foo replaces=bar and provides=bar, installed package baz depends on foo>=2.0. This should fail as bar only provides foo and so it is unknown whether the foo>=2.0 dependency for baz is solved. Allan