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

[Ty John]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:08:33 +0800
Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I understand what you are saying but it comes back to KISS ideals.
The Arch user should know exactly what's happening to their system and
not just let everything happen automagically.