[arch-general] Dependency Hell

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:30 -0400
Chris Tonkinson <chris at tonkinson.com>:

> It's not immediately obvious to me how to combine IgnorePkg,
> HoldPkg, and NoUpgrade to achieve the desired result.

They have nothing to do with each other, so you don't "combine" them.

'NoUpgrade' is intended for local files (that are not specified in a
'backup' array in a package) which should never be overwritten by pacman.
In 8 years with Arch I don't think I've ever used that option; it's
usually only a matter of hours/days from filing a bug and convincing the
maintainer to consider something as config/'backup' file to a new pkg.

'HoldPkg' is kind of a last resort measure to keep you from doing
something really stupid and only concerns the package removal process.

With what you're trying to achieve, 'IgnorePkg' is the only thing to
consider.

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