[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add information on version comparison to manpages

[Xavier]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. And in Xavier's link there is a "Problems with Dependencies"
>> paragraph. So it is required to minimize force/epoch in order to
>> calculate 'foo>=1.3-1' dependencies correctly. Question: any foo
>> package with force will satisfy this. Right?
>>
> Wrong. alpm_depcmp uses versioncmp instead of compate_version, so
> doesn't deal with force.
>

That's correct. But if we want to deal with force/epoch in depcmp,
epoch also seems better here, since it is more precise than force.