[aur-general] TU application

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On 7/20/2013 12:26 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> Almost all packages may have versioned dependencies, and we don't
> do that. It's not because we don't know the minimum required
> version. As we are a rolling release, we know that the system must
> be upgraded completly. So you need to check  the current version in
> repositories (and update it if it's not enough). In this case, dmd
> is in version 2.063.2 in a stable  and official repository, why do
> you need a versioned deps specifically?

I doubt anyone really "needs" them but I have found it to be a nice
self-documenting feature so far, matter of minor convenience. Until
very recently dmd releases has plenty of breaking changes and
practical D users usually waited some time before updating to fresh
release until those issues are taken care of. In that sense
differentiating between programs that work only on latest release and
ones that work on at least last two can be pretty useful.

Guess that is only applicable to AUR stuff.

It is nothing of real importance but question is, what harm does
explicit versioning do?
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