[arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

[Brendan Long]

On 01/31/2010 04:24 PM, Giovanni Scafora wrote:
> 2010/2/1, fons at kokkinizita.net <fons at kokkinizita.net>:
>   
>>  Pacman did *not* tell him this was just a rename.
>>     
> pacman just ask him if he wants to replace kernel-headers by
> api-headers, but it's obvious that software has been renamed or
> replaced by another one.
> If you dislike that behaviour, please send a request to pacman-dev ML.
>
>   
The difference between replaced and renamed is significant though.
There's no reason not to replace kernel-headers with linux-api-headers,
but there are some other packages (cdrtools vs cdrkit comes to mind)
that would give the same message but have a very different effect. Just
my 2 cents.

-Brendan Long