[arch-general] The libgmp update

[Hilton Medeiros]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:21:51 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 28/03/10 08:19, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 23:08:08 schrieb Hilton Medeiros:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> just to confirm, all the packages linked against the new libgmp
> >> should follow 'coreutils' example and use 'gmp>=5.0', right?
> >> I just saw that gnunet didn't.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Hilton
> >
> > No, it's the other way round. Using versioned deps is just wrong.
> >
> 
> Agreed.  Not having it means you can not do "pacman -Sy gnunet" which 
> would update gmp as a side effect if using a versed dep and cause
> havok to the rest of your system.  Not having it means only gnunet
> would be affected.

Understood. This just saved me... well thought, thanks.

Cheers