[arch-general] arch health

[Martin Kühne]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> In the past there have been just crashes or buggy behavior that
> only got fixed with the version-next++ and until then arch had
> to live with the broken and regressed version as the default
> since there wasn't a revoke/downgrade via the index. Since
> you can downgrade manually, the index ought to have mechanism
> for this too. Hope this makes sense.

Such a feature would mean all dependencies would be flagged for
downgrades too, except when two packages a package depends on have
been upgraded. then an intermediate version with package A_old and
B_new. That should even be possible in the *usual* case, but we
*would* need a plan for when that wasn't possible, which would mean
forcing downgrade of package B because A_new cannot be satisfied
because package C depends on either being compatible, and we're kind
of dissolving the foundations of KISS on which arch is built. See what
I mean?

cheers!
mar77i