[arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

[Doug Newgard]

On 2014-07-31 09:37, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote:
>> > Your database is probably out of date. Try:
>> >
>> > # pacman -Syy
>> >
>> > and try again.
>> >
>> > Paul
>> 
>> No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems.
> 
> It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes.
> Experience of what
> happens in practice tells me that it will almost certainly be fine and
> will avoid a potentially long
> and unwanted system update in the middle of work.
> 
> But yes, technically, it's better to do -Syu so that you're not
> potentially installing a package
> that was built against another package that you have have an
> out-of-date version of, possibly
> leading to the new package segfaulting or failing to launch.
> 
> Paul

If you do it habitually, yes, you WILL run into problems eventually.