[arch-dev-public] Versioned dependency fun...

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Tue Mar 2 13:32:05 EST 2010


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

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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