[arch-general] announce libraries in provides=()

[Erich Eckner]

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On Thu, 16 May 2019, Andy Pieters wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:23 PM mike lojkovic via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Suggesting pacman add some portage style features for dependency resolution
>> and packaging? Modifying packages on a local system to fix bugs caused by
>> versions of packages?
>>
>>
> Arch Linux has always made it clear that partial upgrades are unsupported.
> I have had to do some hair-raising things to recover some systems after
> doing partial upgrades, but this perhaps may make all of our lives a bit
> easier. Even if their official stance on partial upgrades remains, it would
> at least a more sane safeguard against ending up in a system that can only
> be recovered by the guruest of gurus. (e.g. you upgraded glibc and nothing
> works any more, or you've broken pacman,...)

Hi,

don't get me wrong, I'm not proposing to add versioned dependencies on 
libraries to official arch packages, but to add the respective "provides" 
entries, so _unofficial_ packages can have versioned dependencies if they 
want.

What does "partial upgrade" mean in the context of a package compiled by 
the user?

regards,
Erich

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