[arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

Bjoern Franke bjo at schafweide.org
Thu Sep 10 18:52:19 UTC 2020


Hi,

> With due respect to all developers and package maintainers, I think Arch
> needs to have policy that maintainer must be using the package they
> maintain.
> 
> This will make sure that they dont simply bump the pkgver / pkgrel and
> release untested package.

Are you serious?

> This bug can create a disaster for someone, if person blindly tries a
> regular fix to such problems i.e. --overwrite usr/sbin. Their whole
> system would crash as there will be no symlink to usr/bin and many
> executables would go missing. And probably will not boot.

You can't blame the developers / package maintainers for users doing 
stupid things.

Regards
Bjoern


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