2008/3/7 Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>:
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.
Well, did you try to break it, or did you more or less do normal upgrades? If you are not trying to do anything stupid, it will probably work well. But if you are trying every possible combinations of different package versions, you will probably find much more problems.
Of course I didn't try to break it, but I used -S many times to upgrade packages. I still don't understand why I should upgrade openoffice (I'm not an ooo user;-), if I want to upgrade audacious. ---------------------------------------------------- SZTE Egyetemi Könyvtár - http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/