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

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:30:39PM -0200, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:20 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> > But then: pacman knows that A is installed and
> > depends on libfoo.so.1. But still it removes
> > that library. Why ? I'd just say it fails to
> > do its job, part of which is being aware of
> > dependencies.
> 
> In fact, pacman doesn't know that application A needs libfoo.so.1.

It *should* know this :-)

> It just knows that package (which contains application A0 requires
> package libfoo (which contains library libfoo.so.1).

In that case, play it safe and don't remove anything that 
any app could depend on. It's better than making a system
instantly unusable.

Ciao,

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FA

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