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

[Brendan Long]

On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
>> It would be interesting to try to patch yaourt to do what you're wanting
>> though. The simplest solution I can think of is some sort of script that
>> finds out which files in a package are libraries (probably something
>> simple like looking for $pkgname.$pkgver.so, combined with what files
>> are different in the new package). When you update a library and a
>> package that's held back depends on it:
>>     
> One very simple solution would be to never delete anything
> named /usr/lib/*.so* unless you really have to. That requires
> one regexp match. A hack, not perfect but it would help.
>
> Ciao,
>
>   
Except then you'd annoy everyone who wants their package manager to work
properly. When I update a package I expect it to clean up after itself.