[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Installation of libreoffice

[Auguste Pop]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:09:06 +0200
> schrieb Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
>
>> As pacman will happily install multiple replacement packages, I would
>> suggest removing the provides= line from libreoffice-common and adding
>> replaces=libreoffice to the split packages that should get installed
>> when upgrading.
>
> And 'libreoffice-langpack' needs to be removed from depends of
> libreoffice-common. It doesn't make much sense to have it in depends
> and in optdepends anyway. I think it's better to keep it in
> optdepends, maybe with a post install note that no language package
> has been installed.
>
> Because of this someone got his language pack been uninstalled and
> replaced by a different one by pacman -Syu.
>
> See the bug report I have mentioned earlier.
>
> Heiko
>

i thought there was a choosing phase before actually install a
language pack when upgrading. the default choice is alphabetically the
first, which may caused the problem you just depicted.

best regards,