[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[vlad]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:26:59AM +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:18:00AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> 
> > I think you miss a point here.  After a rebuild NONE of the packages
> > in the repos depend on the old library.  So there is no point in us
> > packaging the old library for compatibilty, as none is needed.  We
> > only support the latest packages in the repos, so if you have issues
> > with old versions of packages or packages from unsupported sources,
> > then it is up to you to fix them.
> 
> It seems you didn't even read what I wrote.
> 
> I do *not* propose to keep old versions in the repo.
> I did even write explicitly that I consider it normal
> for all packages in a repo to depend on only one
> library version.
> 
> I *do* propose to not remove the actual old library
> files when installing a new one with a different major
> version. That's all. 
> 
> In other words, do not *force* a user to update all
> app using a library just because one of them requires
> a newer version. Doing this leaves the user with a
> broken system, possibly at the most inconvenient time.
> 
Heh? 
The idea of a rolling distro also applies to the AUR.
The AUR as a part of Arch is as "rooling" as Arch is. 
Btw, there are workarounds like "libpng12" in the AUR, if you don't want
to rebuild all of your own built application.

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