[arch-general] Package coordination with archlinuxfr repo?

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> With gcc-gcj 4.5.1 installed, gcc 4.5.2 would not install due to the gcc-gcj gcc
> 4.5.1 depends. pdftk depended on gcc-gcj. So both gcc-gcj and pdftk had to be
> uninstalled before gcc 4.5.2 would install (without any forcing or ignoring
> dependencies) Both removed, then gcc 4.5.2 installed and then rebuilt both from
> AUR :p

i see :-)

I want new thoughts about what the meaning of a package is ... and how
it can be better represented for derivation from it's integrals;
source code and user state.  the tarball has served us well for a long
time, but ... in the now-time of cheap encryption, distributed clouds,
parallel peers and ...

C Anthony