[arch-general] Which version gets installed by pacman?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/5/6 Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Timm Preetz <timm at preetz.us> wrote:
>>
>>  In standard pacman.conf this behaviour is necessary, because otherwise
>>  pacman would install testing-packages (for example) just because they
>>  have higher version.
>>
>>  And that wouldn't be too good in some cases.
>>
>
> If you want to use testing, it's recommended to use all of it, for
> obvious linking reasons.
> That's why testing appears first in pacman.conf (but is disabled by default).
>

Sometimes it is useful to have testing after all other repos though.
For example, I have testing after all repos and when a dev asks
to signoff some package - I just do pacman -S testing/somepackage
to download only that package.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)