[arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

[Guilherme M. Nogueira]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

>  pacman cares because pacman will try it's hardest to never ever break
> your system unless you say so. If pacman has no knowledge of files in
> your system, it'd be amazingly stupid to blindly overwrite them. What
> happens if I wrote a big long OOo document and saved it (stupidly) as
> /usr/bin/mydoc and then pacman decided to install an app named
> "mydoc". Poof, lost my work.
>
> I know the above is a contrived example, but it serves to illustrate
> the point: pacman is not in control of your system. You are. Pacman
> will never say "I know better than you, so I'll just replace this with
> what I think it should be". Instead it will say "woah woah woah... you
> did something I don't understand. You deal with it and tell me when
> you figured it out"
>

These two paragraphs are great, Aaron!
Would you mind if I add them to the wiki page of Pacman regarding the
"something: something exists in filesystem" error, or is it too much
informality for the wiki?


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