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

[Xavier]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This would likely require 2 changes to pacman to implement:
> 1. Pacman would have to know that libpng8 is the newer version of libpng7
> and prompt users to install that (or do it as a upgrade keeping the old
> package).

Is that needed ? Newly rebuilt packages that need libpng8 would depend
on libpng8, so libpng8 would be picked up that way.
If you have no packages requiring libpng8, there is no need to install it.

> 2. Pacman would have to know something was removed from the repo and somehow
> notify the user and possibly give them a [Y/n] to remove it from their
> system. (I personally think this is a good idea to implement anyway).
>

pacman -Qm