[pacman-dev] Another proposal for the "-Sy libjpeg" problem

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi!

I think the problem is known for everyone, if a user upgrades a package
(without -Su), he can easily get "error while loading shared libraries".

The most perfect (but maybe overkill) solution is Florian's one:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-August/009158.html
(that patch needs some work on optdepends side, but that is not so
complicated.)

I mention a simpler one: Add a new switch to upgrade reversedeps too
(recursively), ie. "pacman -S --reversedeps libjpeg" would upgrade all
packages depend on (the local) libjpeg. This should be straightforward
to implement and imho this is a bit more sophisticated than the "pacman
-Syu libjpeg" request (see bugs.archlinux.org :-P).

Opinions?

Bye