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

[Brendan Long]

On 02/08/2010 07:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:08:10 -0500, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> if someone actually posts patches or other constructive stuff, please CC
> me. We're rewriting pacman anyway and looking for a solution to handle
> this mess in particular.
>
> Right now the only idea i got is versioned deps which is sort of flawed
> since that would assert a certain awareness upstream. And if we had
> that, we didnt have the problem in the first place...
>
> maybe there is a smarter way to force update of packages that would break 
> when their dependencies are updated.
>
> --
> Arvid
>   
Since you rebuild all of the packages every time there's an update
anyway, couldn't you just assume that everything will break and set all
of the rebuilt packages to depend on the new version?