[pacman-dev] some limitations of the current front-end, new -D option

[bardo]

On 9/12/07, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
> > Some users even try to reinstall all installed packages sometimes. This would
> > lose all REASON information.
>
> is this a hobby? :)

I had to do it in a couple of cases. For example, one year ago I was
getting a lot of crashes almost everywhere. Reinstalling everything
helped a lot. Or I had to reformat. A pacman -Q to a file and then a
reinstall of everything on the new system.

Corrado