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

[Brendan Long]

On 02/01/2010 12:08 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
> 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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> GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
>   
Sounds like the real problem is pacman's message then. My suggestion:
change "package x has been replaced by package y" to "package x has been
renamed package y".

-Brendan Long