[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Versioned dependency fun...

Xavier Chantry chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 17:40:25 EST 2010


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 14:06:57 schrieb Dan McGee:
>> > and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned
>> > dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too)
>>
>> Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing the messenger; this
>> package wouldn't upgrade without a force option either because the
>> same version comparison is used everywhere...
>
> You did notice the smiley? I know this wasn't fair in this case and not too
> serious. But anyway, I would prefer add the force flag and add the (stupid)
> upstream version instead of making your own up.
>

The force flag is a big ugly crap.
I find sanitizing upstream version to be much.. saner.
Or figure out a way to have both a sane version for pacman and the
insane upstream version.


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