On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

I'd just remove it.

Basically the arguement against widespread usage of versioned deps is if you put a versioned openssl>=1.0 there and someone does "pacman -Sy mutt", it will pull in the new openssl and break many packages on their system.  If you do not put it there, it will only break mutt.

Wasn't it in http://honestknave.com/2009/07/18/the-arch-package-management-debacle/ (unfortunately dead) that the guy did the following : 1) pacman -Sy mutt oh damn mutt is broken because of openssl, let's upgrade openssl 2) pacman -S openssl boom, we are back in the versioned dep case. IIRC this was the post that led to this FR : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15581