On Dec 26, 2007 8:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Although Arch doesn't recommend it/support it, there would be people out there (me being one of them) that don't upgrade all their packages on a regular basis. Thus, installing one new package would be dragging in a lot more dependencies and such that people may not want upgraded.
On that note, I also try and separate makepkg and its functionality from the ideals of Arch Linux, which may clash a bit at times (see the man page moving, removal of docs, etc). I'm a bit weary of defaulting to something that all users of makepkg may not want or use.
I have to agree with Dan here. Maybe if this patch were implemented as an option=() or something I could agree with it, but as a default, it seems a bit overboard.