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

[Brendan Long]

On 02/08/2010 05:36 PM, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> He may want *not* to update a particular package
> for any good reason (reported regression, adding
> unwanted dependencies, user base resistance, ...)
> while still wanting to install a new one that
> requires a new library version.
>
>    
The ability to keep old libraries may be nice, but I'm just saying that 
if Arch doesn't support keeping old libraries, they should make it 
explicit in the depends()