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

[Xavier Chantry]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org> 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.
>

If people actually read my 10 lines mail, and spent more time to think
and less time to write, maybe the thread could have gone forward
rather than backward ?
The last discussions on the sodepends/soprovides proposal are there :
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-January/010386.html
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-February/

It's not the first time I regret posting to arch-general, I should
have kept this on pacman-dev only, discussions tend to be much more
constructive there with much less noise.

Anyway, care to explain what you are rewriting pacman for ? There are
probably plenty of good reasons to do that, I am just curious to know
if you have any :)