[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] fontconfig 2.10.1 will require user interaction

[Guillaume Brunerie]

On 2012/9/6 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 06/09/12 18:20, Heiko Baums wrote:
> > Am Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:06:57 +0200
> > schrieb Andreas Radke <andyrtr at archlinux.org>:
> >
> >> Pacman will detect the symlinks and break before the install scriptlet
> >> will be run. So this is not an option.
> >
> > Did you test it?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it won't, since I tested this before in one of my AUR
> > packages. Well, it was the removal of files in /lib due to the change
> > from /lib to /usr/lib, but at least this has worked.
> >
>
> Conflict checking is done before pre_install scripts are run.  Those
> files are not owned by any package so will produce a conflict.


Perhaps a pre_conflict_checking() function should be added to pacman to
take care of this kind of problems. Has this already been considered?