[arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

[Ray Rashif]

On 01/02/2010, fons at kokkinizita.net <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:55:57PM +0100, Giovanni Scafora wrote:
>> 2010/1/31, fons at kokkinizita.net <fons at kokkinizita.net>:
>> >  that means that cdrkit has been renamed to cdrtools ? :-)
>>
>> Of course, it means that the software has benn renamed or replaced by
>> another one.
>
> So it can mean two very different things.
>
> Which means that the exact background of the question
> 'Replace kernel-headers by api-headers ?' is unclear,
> and that the OP had good reason to ask what it meant.
> Pacman did *not* tell him this was just a rename.

Oh nono, $replaces isn't used like that. When for instance you have
deleted a package and brought in a new one with a different name,
often due to a name change (upstream or not), you need to make sure
pacman will know and seamlessly "update" to the new package.
Sometimes, projects go defunct and forks become active.

Asking the user to answer the question resolves one big thing:

1) He will not complain later; he won't be freaked out when he finds
one of his packages is missing and/or the system has something he
can't recall installing.


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