[arch-general] makepkg as root

Yamakaky yamakaky at yamaworld.fr
Sat Jan 3 18:34:23 UTC 2015


> I'm going to disagree with you on both counts. While maintaining
> backward compatibility is a good thing, there is often a cost, and very
> often that cost is too high. In this case, maintaining cruft and
> additional code complexity in order to maintain a feature that should
> never be used anyway simply isn't worth it to the authors/maintainers
> of the software in question.

I precise my point : it's a backward incompatible release, so it's 
version number should be 5.0, and not 4.2. See [semver] 
(http://semver.org/).


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