[arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

[Ray Kohler]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christos Nouskas <nous at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Arvid Picciani wrote:
>> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/
>>
>> Let me know if this solution works for everyone
>> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that
>>         site or the fact that it exists
>> and/or if anything should be added to it.
>>
>> Contributors very welcome :)
>
>
> Suggestions:
>
> 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or -nodbus
> or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if they lag
> behind the official ones.

No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official
ones in pacman.conf, it will override them regardless of version
comparisons.