[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Do not remove conflict by default

[Xavier]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Imho your noyes default behavior is better... Moreover, maybe we should
>> also print somehow the conflict itself in warning, because 'udev
>> conflicts with initscripts<2009.07' (btw, why is there 2 conflicts line
>> udev's PPKGBUILD?) is much different from "foo conflicts with bar"...
>> However, in most cases that would be redundant information, so I am
>> unsure. (In fact we print redundant information in case of unresolvable
>> dependencies, too)
>
> I can see adding this information would be a good idea.  I will see if I can
> do that too  (it has been a long time since I touched actual pacman code).
>

Nagy and I already discussed this a bit yesterday, and he said he
would write a patch :)
But having new eyes on the code can not be a bad thing!