[pacman-dev] replaces vs conflicts

[Allan McRae]

On 13/08/10 21:11, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 13.08.2010 10:49, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 13/08/10 18:34, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 13/08/10 17:41, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>> Has something changed in the handling of provides/conflicts/replaces.
>>>>
>>>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>>>> core 35.7K 30.4K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
>>>> extra 458.8K 52.5K/s 00:00:09 [######################] 100%
>>>> community 380.4K 40.4K/s 00:00:09 [######################] 100%
>>>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>>>> resolving dependencies...
>>>> looking for inter-conflicts...
>>>> :: elfutils and libelf are in conflict. Remove libelf? [y/N]
>> For some reason I am getting this but other people are getting the the
>> usual replaces.   So if no-one else replicates, just ignore this...
>
> I got a conflict too. pacman 3.4.0-2

Great, I am not going mad.   But not great, something strange is 
happening...

> Also shouldn't you be able to ignore that with -d?
>
>> sudo pacman -Sd elfutils
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> :: elfutils and libelf are in conflict. Remove libelf? [y/N]
> error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
> error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
> :: elfutils and libelf are in conflict

Huh?  -d has nothing to do with conflicts...