[pacman-dev] [PATCH] New --nonew option (resubmit)

[Nagy Gabor]

> 2008/3/7 Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>:
> > >
> >  > heh, so many-many gtk2-dependant packages should have
> >  > depends=('gtk2>=2..4/2.6/2.8/210/whatever')
> >  > this is just unreal, nobody will want to check that stuff (because
> >  > it's not trivial and consumes valuable time)
> >  >
> >  1. A bit off-topic, about packaging:
> >  * Well, obviously nobody wants to recheck existing packages... Hopefully
> your
> >  distro's packaging policy declares that dependencies should be filled in
> correctly.
> >  * If I cannot assume this, then what can I expect from the packager?
> Almost all
> >  projects have an INSTALL file or something which defines clearly the
> minimal
> >  version of its dependencies (or can be caught easily from configure.ac).
> >  * To be more concrete: with ArchLinux I had only about 3 missing depver
> issues
> >  for ~5 years, after reporting them, they were fixed soon.
> >
> 
> Well, did you try to break it, or did you more or less do normal upgrades?
> If you are not trying to do anything stupid, it will probably work
> well. But if you are trying every possible combinations
> of different package versions, you will probably find much more problems.
> 
Of course I didn't try to break it, but I used -S many times to upgrade
packages. I still don't understand why I should upgrade openoffice (I'm not an
ooo user;-), if I want to upgrade audacious.


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