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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Feb 8 19:46:44 EST 2010


On 09/02/10 10:20, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> If I accepted your standpoint as a solution, I would suggest to
> not use %CONFLICTS% array or versioned dependencies;-)

I actually do suggest not to use versioned dependencies...  that way 
when someone did a "pacman -Sy breakingpkg", it would not pull in the 
new library version and on the new package would be "broken" because of 
a missing library.  Versioned dependencies are a broken hack.

Allan


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