On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote:

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

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Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 14:06:57 schrieb Dan McGee:

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and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too)

Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing the messenger; this package wouldn't upgrade without a force option either because the same version comparison is used everywhere...

You did notice the smiley? I know this wasn't fair in this case and not too serious. But anyway, I would prefer add the force flag and add the (stupid) upstream version instead of making your own up.

The force flag is a big ugly crap. I find sanitizing upstream version to be much.. saner. Or figure out a way to have both a sane version for pacman and the insane upstream version.

I was actually thinking about this again and thinking epoch might not be a bad idea- I don't know if I had any legit objection to it before but I can't think of one anymore. If someone is interested in implementing, I'd be for it. -Dan