[arch-dev-public] fontconfig 2.10.1 will require user interaction

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 09:18:18 EDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:11:21PM +1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
>> [2012-09-05 13:23:33 +0200] Andreas Radke:
>> > News draft:
>>
>> May I suggest the following version:
>>
>>
>> fontconfig 2.10.1 update - manual intervention required
>>
>> Symlinks formerly created by the post_install script of fontconfig will
>> now be part of the package starting with version 2.10.1. To resolve the
>> detected conflicts, you may safely force this upgrade by running:
>>
>>   pacman -Syf fontconfig
>
> We should suggest --force here, not -f, since the latter no longer
> exists in 4.1.
Seconded, and we should always sugest --force anyway, as it is then
much clearer to the user what they are doing is an extreme measure.

-Dan


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