[arch-general] ABS and pacman

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:34:37PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote:
> On 09/25/12 at 08:16pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez
> > <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
> > > Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to
> > > substitute a package that has been ABS'd?
> > 
> > Why not put your tweaked packages in 'IgnorePkg' in pacman.conf?
> 
> Many times these tweaks are temporary and, indeed, newer versions make
> them unnecessary. It can definitely be done as you suggest, but I think
> it'd be in the spirit of the help provided by, e.g., .pacsave and .pacnew files, to have pacman issue a warning.
> -- 

Patches to pacman are always welcome

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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