[pacman-dev] Misleading info when epoch is used

[Xavier]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this was already discussed or even implemented, but is
> the epoch value taken into account when resolving dependencies? I am
> asking because I couldn't update from openssl 1.0.0 to 1.0.0a using the
> force switch as this broke all deps like >1.0.0.
> 

yeah thats why we want to move away from 'force' to the epoch concept.

(But there are different ways to implement epoch :))